collagen vascular disease

Definition: Symptoms are presented by the patient as if they were due to a physical disorder of a system or organ that is largely or completely under autonomic innervation and control, i.e. the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory and urogenital systems. The symptoms are usually of two types, neither of which indicates a physical disorder of the organ or system concerned. First, there are complaints based upon objective signs of autonomic arousal, such as palpitations, sweating, flushing, tremor, and expression of fear and distress about the possibility of a physical disorder. Second, there are subjective complaints of a nonspec ...[+++]ific or changing nature such as fleeting aches and pains, sensations of burning, heaviness, tightness, and feelings of being bloated or distended, which are referred by the patient to a specific organ or system. | Cardiac neurosis Da Costa's syndrome Gastric neurosis Neurocirculatory asthenia Psychogenic forms of:aerophagy | cough | diarrhoea | dyspepsia | dysuria | flatulence | hiccough | hyperventilation | increased frequency of micturition | irritable bowel syndrome | pylorospasm

Let me give you an example: Approximately 350,000 Canadians suffer from a heart condition referred to as atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat that can lead to serious medical complications such as stroke.

Approximately 250,000 Canadians suffer from a heart condition referred to as atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat that can lead to serious medical complications such as stroke.

Mr. Speaker, today people living with MS are protesting across this country, including on Parliament Hill, for clinical trials for the new liberation procedure for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency or CCSVI. Over 1,500 liberation procedures have been performed worldwide, with researchers from Bulgaria, Italy, Kuwait and the United States showing similar results, namely that 87% to 90% of MS patients show venous abnormality.

28. Stresses the medical and economic impact of the high incidence of and mortality from cardiovascular diseases among women; calls on the Member States therefore, in the training of medical staff, expressly to draw attention to the different clinical pictures and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases in women and men and to include women in current and future studies of cardiovascular diseases; welcomes in this connection also the new European Union antismoking campaign 'HELP - For a Life Without Tobacco', which is intended to induce more women and men to stop smoking, thereby reducing the risk they run of contracting a cardiovascular d ...[+++]isease, and particularly of suffering a heart attack; calls on the Commission and Member States to reduce heart disease and strokes in women by developing preventive strategies, diagnostic tests, treatment and rehabilitation policies which address women’s needs;