Symptoms of peripheral artery disease can be a valuable warning of future heart attack and stroke danger – if you pay attention to the signs.

Symptoms that indicate liver disease include changes in skin coloration, hyper-pigmentation, jaundice and a yellowing of the eyes. Learn about symptoms of liver disease, such as difficulty clotting blood, from afamily practice physician in this free video series on health care and medical conditions. Expert: Ken Savage Contact: www.wearehdtv.com Bio: Ken Savage is a graduate of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

Early symptoms of a heart attack include a left-sided chest pain that radiates to an upper extremity or the neck, in addition to palpitations and shortness of breath. Learn about early warning signs of heart attacks from afamily practice physician in this free video series on health care and medical symptoms, and seek medical attention. Expert: Ken Savage Contact: www.wearehdtv.com Bio: Ken Savage is a graduate of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

Heart Disease is the leading killer of men and women in the United States and it claims more women’s lives than Breast Cancer. This video highlights symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart disease in women.Ochsner Health System based out of New Orleans, Louisiana, has designed an exclusive YouTube channel to share videos highlighting our community and healthcare activities in the region. For more information, visit “www.ochsner.org”

The cause of heart attacks is a lack of oxygen to the heart muscle. If to many heart muscle dies the attack is fatal, otherwise it makes a scare tissue. Lack of oxygen comes from narrowing of the vessels called coronaries, wich are the arteries of the heart. The narrowing is made of plaques of calcified fat in the arterie’s walls. This plaque occur because of lesion of the walls permitting infiltration of fats. It means that there are two factors that can be modulated in this process: wall lesion and fat. The wall lesions come from high blood pressure, as higher tearing from the viscuos blood stream on the wall will occur if the stream is strong. The cells of the vesselwalls are somehow eroded proportionally to the height of the blood pressure. The other big factor of lesions are all the chemicals and oxydants that can also disrupt the integrity of the walls, those chemicals are best seen in cigarette smoking. The other factor is the fat that can infiltrate at the points of lesser integrity of the vesselwall. This fat is in the blood and has different molecules like cholesterol and fatty acids. The higher the fat in the blood, the higher the atherosclerogenicity. Now to lower fat, there are different solutions, like eating less fat, and practicing three times a week about half an hour of sport or more. Sport/ physical exercise rises the concentration of a special cholesterol produced by the liver called high density cholesterol. This type doesn’t deposits in the walls …

The heart is the symbol of strength, love and courage — the essence of a woman. In the informational series Picture of Health, get a glimpse at the ways a woman’s most vital organ can come under attack — because of Heart Disease, Heart Failure, Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes and Obesity. The 12-part series gives our female viewers (and the men who love them) information on living longer, healthier and stronger.