by Ketan Dhatariya | Sep 25, 2020 | Eastern Daily Press
EDP column by Professor Ketan Dhatariya Anaemia is a lack of blood – or, to be more precise, a diminished ability to carry oxygen in the blood due to a lack of the oxygen carrying molecule, haemoglobin. There are lots of different types of anaemia, but in Norfolk the...
by Ketan Dhatariya | Sep 25, 2020 | Eastern Daily Press
EDP column by Professor Ketan Dhatariya “I have been getting chest pains when I climb my stairs. My GP tells me it is angina. What is this?” Angina is Latin for pain. More correctly what you describe is angina pectoris – chest pain. It sounds as though you have...
by Ketan Dhatariya | Sep 25, 2020 | Eastern Daily Press
EDP column by Professor Ketan Dhatariya “My brother has been told by his GP to start taking a baby aspirin a day to ‘help his heart’. I always thought that aspirin can cause stomach upset. Am I wrong?” Aspirin is derived from the bark of a willow tree. It is...
by Ketan Dhatariya | Sep 25, 2020 | Eastern Daily Press
EDP column by Professor Ketan Dhatariya “My son has got eczema and I have hayfever. My doctor tells me we are ‘atopic’. What does that mean?” To be ‘atopic’ means that you and your family have a genetic tendency to develop allergic diseases, such as asthma,...
by Ketan Dhatariya | Sep 25, 2020 | Eastern Daily Press
EDP column by Professor Ketan Dhatariya “I recently started having palpitations and felt my heart beating very fast. My doctors tells me I have AF. What is this?” Atrial fibrillation – or AF -is uncoordinated electrical activity within the upper two chambers of...
