Heart disease is a chronic health disorder that accounts for 30% of all deaths. Heart disease has many risk factors‚ such as genetics‚ unhealthy eating habits‚ lack of physical activity‚ and smoking. Here‚ we will discuss those risk factors‚ and discuss ways to diminish those risk factors. Heart disease or coronary artery disease is caused by a blockage in the blood vessels that supply the heart. The blockages are caused by plaque which contains cholesterol in large amounts that adhere to the artery
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Fast Food Leads To Chronic Diseases Reading an article on the front page of a prominent newspaper caught my eye‚ “Fast Food Leads To Chronic Diseases”. Recently‚ media coverage show how people are very fond of fast food and how they fail to realise its detrimental effects on their bodies. I wondered what it was that made fast food bad. Well‚ it’s like the name suggests it’s made quickly and contains sugars‚ fats‚ salts and the cooking processes have no beneficial effects on our body. Therefore
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Weekly Journal Clinical Week 11 Clinical Date: Monday‚ November 10 2014 Working with a patient living with and experiencing chronic obstructive disease (COPD) I feel it is necessary to better understand the dyspnea. COPD is a respiratory disorder mainly caused by smoking‚ characterized by progressive‚ partly reversible airflow obstruction‚ systemic manifestation‚ and increasing frequency and severity in exacerbations. Cardinal symptoms experienced by patients with COPD are dyspnea‚ difficulty
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Everyone needs oxygen to breathe‚ but people who have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) find it difficult to cycle oxygen into the lungs. This respiratory system block is sometimes mistaken as just a bad cough or a result of old age‚ but it can be a lot more deadly than people may think. COPD develops through stages instead of affecting a person all at once like more common diseases do‚ making it hard to detect in the beginning.This disturbance in the lungs usually only happens to people
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Chronic Diseases Cancer is a group of diseases that deal with the uncontrolled growth of cells. A tumor refers to a collection of abnormal cells; some of them are known as benign tumors. Benign tumors do not become a cancer unless they start spreading and growing. Once these tumors begin to grow and multiply they become a cancer. There is screening for cancer available but only colon‚ breast‚ cervical and prostate cancer screenings have been known to be effective. Colon cancer or colorectal cancer
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Associate Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health‚ list at least one characteristic‚ activity‚ belief‚ or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: Is your appearance and how you maintain it‚ it is also the ability to perform the physical tasks you may need to accomplish. An activity
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PREVALENCE OF CHRONIC DISEASES AMONG THE AGED IN CAPE COAST METROPOLITAN OVER LAST FOUR YEARS Introduction This paper charts a brief history of Ghana’s chronic disease burden over the last five years‚ focusing on prevalence‚ risk and illness implications in relation to aging. Two arguments are made. First‚ chronic diseases in Ghana constitute public health and developmental challenges‚ requiring the same intellectual and financial commitments afforded to communicable and infectious diseases. Information
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Henry Williams is a 74-year-old African American who was admitted for shortness of breath secondary to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation. His past medical history is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)‚ cardiovascular disease‚ hyperlipidemia‚ asthma‚ hear loss‚ and hypertension. His neighbor brought him to the emergency room because he was having difficulty breathing and weakness. When he was brought to the emergency room‚ he was very weak and restlessness. Williams breathing
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a lung disease that makes breathing difficult. It is progressive which means it gets worse over time if left untreated. In COPD‚ less air flows in and out of the airways because of one of the following: the airways and air sacs lose their elastic quality‚ the walls between many of the air sacs are destroyed‚ the walls of the airways become thick and inflamed and/ or the airways make more mucus than usual. https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/copd/
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Discussion 5.1: Lung Diagnosis For this week this question I have chosen asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD) Asthma and COPD are chronic respiratory conditions. These two conditions have been the focus of multiple studies‚ and discussions with the health care community as millions of people worldwide are affected and died due to its complications. Asthma is a chronic condition‚ characterized by the inflammation of the airways and airflow obstruction(Goolsby‚ Grubbs‚ & Goolsby
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