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Hypertension, this disease occurs when the systolic blood pressure is more than or equal to 140 mmHg, while diastolic blood pressure is equal to or more than 90 mmHg. The patient is usually experience symptoms like headache, floating, tingling, head feels heavy, vomiting and nosebleeds.

Foods that need to be avoided: For patients with hypertension, should avoid eating foods that containing high salt and sodium, such as meat, hot sauce, shrimp paste, dried meat, dried shrimp, sausages, cheese, butter, chocolate, canned fruit, peanut butter, macaroni, instant soup, MSG, tomato sauce and ketchup. Patients should consume a lot of vegetables, fruit and grain.

Diabetes Mellitus, when a person’s glucose level is more than normal limit, which is 200 mg / dl, then it can be said this person is suffering from diabetes. The patient will usually experience excessive thirst, so he often drink, often feel hungry, frequent urination, feeling sleepy, fatigue and weight dramatically dropped. The patient will also experience symptoms of tingling, whitish, blurred vision, itching on the skin and around the genitals as well as impotence or erectile dysfunction on men.

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Leukemia is a type of cancer that initiated in the bone marrow, which is the soft tissue in bone that responsible for producing red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Some cells can turn into leukemia cells, which then divides into more healthy cells.

As cancer of the bone marrow to create more leukemia cells, healthy cells pushing them out and replace them, making it difficult for blood to function properly, and that leads to serious medical problems.

Symptoms for each type of leukemia have variation, but generally symptoms include fever and chills, fatigue, frequent infections, loss of appetite and weight, swollen lymph nodes, easy bruising or bleeding, shortness of breath, bone pain, night sweats, and bleeding into the skin.

Stroke becomes a disease that categorized as a dangerous disease for human. The number of victims died because of a stroke increased every year. Therefore, many ways have been done to prevent major impact for having stroke. Efforts to prevent stroke can only be done if we know that there’s potential for stroke disease in our body.

Stroke disease is causing by unhealthy lifestyle or due to inherited from our parents. Research mention that early symptomps that indicate potential of stroke to someone is the intensity of excessive sleepiness almost everyday.

In America, the doctors are strongly advised to check patient and ask the frequency of sleepiness especially to erderly patients. Because stroke is identical to the erderly patients.