aware on coronary heart disease. What is it ? Heart disease is a range of conditions that affect your heart‚ the term heart disease is often used with the term cardiovascular disease which refers to conditions that are involved in the narrowing of the blood vessels which can then lead to a heart attack. There are many different forms of heart disease which come in the form of heart conditions such as ones that affect your valves‚rhythm or heart muscle. Heart disease is a preventable disease if a healthy
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Perception‚ Knowledge & Awareness of Coronary Heart Disease among rural Australian women 25 to 65 years of age – A Descriptive Study Rosanne Crouch Submitted for Master of Nursing Science‚ October 2008 Discipline of Nursing‚ The University of Adelaide Table of Contents Index of Figures……………………………………………………………………...iii Index of Tables ....................................................................................................... iii Signed Statement ..........................
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It is important to understand what coronary heart disease (CHD) is in order to alter a lifestyle to combat the disease. Poor cardiovascular health care habits can be highly detrimental to a person’s health. Poor habits have a direct relation to lack of knowledge on the subject‚ in this case CHD. An inadequate supply of information can lead the continuation of a poor cardiovascular lifestyle‚ thus drastically raising the risk for CHD. In elementary terms‚ what you do not know can hurt you. In 2013
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different physiological‚ such as coronary heart disease‚ cerebrovascular disease (or accidents)‚ rheumatoid arthritis‚ and several others. The biological causes of these diseases are not as clear as some of the lifestyle choices that can lead to them. The symptoms of these diseases range from irritating to bothersome and even painful or dangerous. While all of these diseases can be treated‚ they cannot necessarily be cured or entirely prevented. Coronary heart disease is restricted maximum blood flow
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Women under 60 and men under 50 who have diabetes but no other major risk factors for heart disease probably should not be on low-dose aspirin therapy‚ new research suggests. The new recommendations are based on close examination of nine studies that found the risks of some aspirin side effects‚ such as stomach bleeding‚ should be better balanced against the possible benefits of using aspirin. The larger theme here is that use of low-dose aspirin to prevent heart attacks in people who have not
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through the body as an excretory product by the kidneys‚ through urination 2. Coronary heart diseases like atherosclerosis are a result of calcium/ mineral deposits inside the arteries‚ which leads to the hardening of the arteries. This hinders blood flow and can be very dangerous. Because EDTA can minimize the amount of calcium in the blood‚ some practitioners believe that Chelation Therapy may help unclog the arteries and cause the plaque to disintegrate. 2. Free Radical + Metallic Ion Cellular
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from her brother-in-law‚ who told her that her sister had just recently been admitted into the hospital after experiencing difficulty breathing and chest pain. When my aunt was diagnosed with coronary artery disease‚ my family became worried. A physician had informed us that my aunt would need a Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and she needed surgery immediately. While my aunt spent her time in the hospital with special care‚ my cousin Mark‚ who is mentally disabled‚ spent time with our family
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Problem Coronary heart disease is a chronic disease in which plaque‚ fatty deposits‚ builds up inside the coronary arteries which supply blood to the heart. The build up of plaque is called atherosclerosis and can develop for many years undetected. Some common symptoms of coronary heart disease are chest pain‚ shortness of breath‚ and extreme fatigue with exertion‚ in turn increasing the risk of other health issues such as angina pectoris and eventually heart attacks. Today‚ coronary heart disease is
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health as‚ "the state of complete mental‚ physical and social well being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." A health educator is one who informs people on how to achieve and maintain good health and promotes environmental and lifestyle changes where needed. As a future health educator I completely agree with the World Health Organization’s definition‚ health is not just about being disease-free‚ it is also about being satisfied with the person you are. In this paper‚ I am going to talk
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There are many factors related to one’s health‚ however patients that live a healthy lifestyle and have no intention of creating their disease‚ should be put first before patients who once had a preventable disease but increased their chances of getting it through lifestyle risk factors. Lifestyle risk factors are behaviors that increases one’s possibility of disease or injury. According to the National Stroke Association‚ tobacco use‚ smoking‚ alcohol use‚ and obesity are lifestyle risk factors that
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