Word: bloodedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason to expect that the doctor who gave him his annual physical would marvel at his fat-free midsection and low heart rate. Instead, the doctor seemed more interested in the results of Zarmunsky's laboratory tests, one of which showed the abnormal presence of protein, red blood cells and other substances in his urine. This condition can be an indication of nephritis, a potentially serious kidney disease. It can also be a sign of an apparently benign condition that is likely to become more common as increasing numbers of Americans take up jogging and running. When a second...
...does vigorous and prolonged exrcise cause pseudonephritis? Under normal conditions, some 20% of the blood pumped from the heart flows to the kidneys for filtration and removal of wastes. Exercise causes the body to shunt more blood to the muscles, reducing the flow to the kidneys by as much as 50%. But the kidneys continue to work at the same rate and apparently filter more protein out of a smaller volume of blood. Exercise also seems to cause constriction of the efferent arterioles, the vessels that lead out of the glomeruli, the kidney's filtration units. The result...
...sooner. In its earliest stages, it can usually be arrested by prompt and aggressive surgery or radiation, or both. The catch is that early detection has so far proved difficult, not only because men too often avoid rectal examination by the physician's gloved finger, but because available blood tests turn up evidence of malignancy in only more advanced cases...
Studying 113 men with prostate cancer, researchers from the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and U.C.L.A. turned to the radioimmunoassay. which can detect incredibly small quantities of biological substances with the help of radioactive tracers. The results: they were able to identify the telltale phosphatase elevation in the blood of 33% of patients in the early, first stage of the disease. 79% of second-stage cases. 71% third stage and 92% of the cases in the fourth and final stage-when the disease is often far too advanced for any hope of cure. By contrast, they report...
...Crimson drew its first blood in the 200-yd. medley relay as Erich Seder, Frank Lexa, Carlos Dobal and Bob Sacks splashed to a 1:47.8 first place...