it’s important to know some of the most serious heat-related illnesses and the symptoms that go with them.

Syncope is a temporary loss of consciousness that happens due to a decrease in blood flow to your brain. It’s more commonly known as fainting. Fainting accounts for between 3 and 5 percent of ...

Syncope is relatively common in the emergency department (ED) -- frequency is approximately 1% to 2% of all ED visits, and syncope accounts for roughly the same percentage of hospital admissions. [1,2 ...

In the absence of structural heart disease (including a normal ECG), syncope is most often of neurally mediated reflex origin or orthostatic hypotension. As a rule, reflex etiologies predominate in ...

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We evaluated the incidence, specific causes, and prognosis of syncope among women and men participating in the Framingham Heart Study from 1971 to 1998. Of 7814 study participants followed for an ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information, sharing his or her reasoning with the reader ...

We examined if syncope was a marker of an occult cancer by comparing the risk in patients with a syncope episode with that of the general population. Using Danish population-based medical registries, ...

Pregnant women who experienced episodes of syncope -- or fainting -- had higher rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes, as well as postpartum cardiovascular events, researchers found. Women who ...

For some people, just coughing, having a bowel movement, or even swallowing can cause them to faint. Micturition syncope is the medical term for fainting (syncope) while urinating or right after ...