million Americans suffer a heart attack every year‚ and almost half a million die‚ according to the American Heart Association. A heart attack often is the first symptom of coronary artery disease. The blockage usually is caused by atherosclerosis‚ the build-up of plaque in the artery walls‚ and/or by a blood clot in a coronary artery. A slow buildup of this plaque may almost block one of your coronary arteries. The cause of the heart is not always known. Heart attacks may occur when you are
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States have heart attacks and almost half of them die. Even though heart attacks isn’t the end of a person’s life‚ people can still live an active‚ productive life after a heart attack‚ because people can live healthier lives and people can go about doing things like before. This disease will take you by surprise all of a sudden. It may be surprising that while many women believe breast cancer is most threatening to them‚ it is a fact that they are eight times more likely to die of a heart attack. There
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The Artificial Heart The artificial heart is an extra pumping chamber that can pump blood throughout the body. The heart is a muscular pump that maintains oxygen and blood circulation through the lungs and body. Our heart pumps about 2‚000 gallons of blood throughout the day. An adult’s heart pumps blood at a rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute. The heart has two stages‚ in the first stage the left and right Atria contract at the same time pumping blood through the left and right ventricle. In the
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1. How does the heart change as it develops in a fetus? At first‚ the heart is just a tube. It grows so fast that it needs more space‚ so it bends and twists back‚ forming the familiar shape. During the next phase‚ the two atria are partly separate but there is just one big ventricle. The next phase begins when the two atria are completely separate and the ventricles are just beginning to separate. Finally‚ the ventricles separate completely and the heart is developed. 2. What is the largest vessel
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Descartes Essay: Existence of God Descartes’ Third Meditation focuses on the existence of God. He describes God as ‘a certain substance that is infinite‚ independent‚ supremely intelligent and supremely powerful‚ and that created me along with everything else that exists – if anything else exists’ (Descartes‚ 25). In this Meditation‚ he states a fundamental principle that ‘there must be as much [reality] in the cause as there is in its effect’. This is the question of the existence of infinity
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Heart disease‚ strokes and high blood pressure The heart: Our heart is a vital organ; it is a super muscle which constantly pumps our blood around our body at a rate of 40 to 100 beats per minute for a lifetime. It never tires. The heart has two sides which are separated and each side has two chambers. Valves make sure blood can only flow in one direction. The right side receives de-oxygenated blood from the body through the vena cava and pumps it through the pulmonary artery to the lungs‚ and the
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Christians would be interrogated to confess Christian beliefs and would be threatened with death. If they didn’t give up the beliefs then they would be executed. Pliny then details the practices of the Christians saying they’d sing hymns to Christ as god. They all blind themselves by oath. Romans would use torture in interrogations of slaves Nero- Corrupt emperor with lavish parties with prostitutes. Had one crazy party Fire set in Rome‚ and many people had thought that Nero set the fire
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Diagnosis: Heart Failure Defined: “An abnormal clinical condition involving impaired cardiac pumping that results in pathophysiologic changes in vasoconstriction and fluid retention” (Lewis‚ Heitkemper‚ Dirksen‚ O’Brien‚ Bucher‚ 2007‚ p. 821). Risk factors: Increasing age and coronary artery disease are the two main risk factors for heart failure. Heart failure may also develop by other contributing risk factors‚ such as cigarette smoking‚ diabetes‚ high cholesterol‚ obesity‚ and hypertension
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The book I read was The Warriors Heart‚ a true story about Eric Greitens life. The story mostly follows Greitens as he serves as a US navy seal. The main conflicts are talking about the Rwandan Genocide and the refugees in Rwanda to Bosnia and then the War in Iraq.. The principal lesson Greitens learned through his unique background in military service and humanitarian work was that in order to create meaningful change‚ one must be both good and strong. The vocabulary wasn’t very complicated and
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Hero Reviewed by: Rebecca H February 03‚ 2008 Rating:four-point-five Does the World Need a Hero? The title of Zhang Yi Mou’s latest film Hero purposely emphasizes the singularity of its title. Yet perhaps it can be said that if the movie is indeed centered solely on just ONE concept‚ notion and example of the divine Hero that could be deduced‚ then its scope may be a bit too narrow-minded. One can say that the movie depicts various heroic virtues‚ but exactly whom one views as the hero
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