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March 18, 2009
Have you ever found yourself lying awake 3 am in the morning wondering why the aorta doesn’t collapse during systole due to the Bernoulli effect? Or why we see ST segment depressions during exercise stress testing? And why in the name of heaven only in the lateral leads?
Then this site is hopefully something for you. I hope this will be a site where you physiology nerds from all over the world can unite and discuss what’s on your hearts (pun intented, obviously). Are you wondering about something but lacking the nerve to ask? Or have you ‘ruined’ to many perfectly nice family dinners trying to discuss the E/A ratio in patients with diastolic dysfunction? Now you can stop ruining your social life! Drop me a comment and I will publish your question on this blog. Maybe someone else have the answer, or at least a useful article or review where you can learn more.
Please be aware – asking good questions is the first step towards winning the Nobel Price. If you do have a really good question you might want to discuss the answer after you have published the article and not before…
March 18, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Hello,
Mats posted the link in kristnet and this looks like something he would also wonder, though different field of science, of course.
I don’t understand much of this (whatever the diastolic dysfunction is), but I like watching House so maybe this is something to that direction
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Got no blog of my own buy my wife blogs (sporadically) at http://lararinna.wordpress.com/
Maybe I’ll bookmark this, however.
March 18, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Hello there! Nice to have you visiting! I realise that I probably sound like a complete dork to those of you readers from other professions, but nevertheless I hope you will feel free to ask any question, or comment on anything you like, as long as it concerns the heart and its function. The really ‘stupid’ questions are usually the most interesting ones, aren’t they?
March 19, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Hi! Read the news in Mats’ blog. I married into a family that sits around the table measuring their blood pressure once per day. I’m not joking! They pay attention to their heart beats and their blood and, well maybe if we all would some bad events would be avoided. Anyway, I do have a question:
I heard a doctor on tv say that people with a deep crease in their earlobes have an increased risk of suffering a heart attack. Living in an area where someone in the neighbourhood seems to be getting a heart attack once every two weeks (cigarettes, fat meat, baklava and no excercise) I started looking for deep creases and found one, not on my husband but on a relative. So, is it true about the crease and if so, where is the connection between the ears and the cardiovascular health of a person?
March 22, 2009 at 8:21 am
What is the meaning of the atrial auricles?