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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Pernicious Anemia and its association to orthostatic hypertension Pernicious anemia is the major form of vitamin B12 deficiency. It is caused by serum antibodies against intrinsic factor which leads to B12 deficiency rather than by B12 deficiency itself. Absorption of vitamin B12 requires intrinsic factor which is secreted by parietal cells. Pernicious anemia is marked by autoimmune attack on gastric mucosa and a loss in parietal cells. Approximately 75% of the affected patients have type I antibody
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Style Wars Style wars is a film that documents a number of young graffiti artists who were transforming the city with their unique art. They used the city’s subway system as a canvas and let their work be seen in all five boroughs of New York. This film is a great film that documents that time in history. It is difficult for me to side with them or be against them. I am also an artist and I know how it feels when you have to feed that hunger and the only way to do it is to perform it. I
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various diseases and disorders are being developed constantly‚ and yet‚ coronary heart disease remains the number one killer in the world.<br><br>The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse‚ homicides‚ AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden deaths. In fact‚ the number of deaths from heart disease approximately equals to the number of deaths from cancer‚ accidents‚ chronic lung disease‚ pneumonia
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Between 1347 and 1351‚ 200 million people in Europe died from the Black Death. The disease was first exposed to Europe when twelve Genoese trading ships docked in a Sicilian port. Most of the sailors on the ships had already died from the disease‚ and those who were still alive were very ill. Once this disease spread‚ it affected many lives. Some of the ways the Black Death affected an individual’s life was that it killed loved ones‚ it created a rebellion among peasants who wanted more pay
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EMC Lifestyle - For five years‚ our backyard shed has been jammed with boxes from my previous life when I was a daily newspaper reporter‚ columnist and editor. A few days ago‚ when we were preparing for a yard sale‚ I decided it was time to sort through the stuff. But‚ after five years‚ the newspapers were disintegrating and damp. I tried to dig through them‚ but there were creepy-crawlers‚ cobwebs and unknown brown blotches on them. But in one box‚ I could see a few papers - three-hole-punch
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Nayeli Fuentes still finds the time and support to keep her faith running. She was raised Catholic her entire life and now takes part in the Catholic Student Organization on campus. Photographic Idea: Take a few photographs of St. Joseph Catholic Church and a few photographs of Fuentes inside the church. Questions: 1. Describe your life before college. 2. Describe your religious life
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Peripheral Artery Disease and Risks The common cause of peripheral artery disease (PAD) is atherosclerosis. Less common causes of peripheral artery disease may be blood vessel inflammation‚ injury to your limbs‚ unusual anatomy of your ligaments or muscles‚ or radiation exposure (Mayo Clinic‚ 2016). The risk factors for PAD are the same as those for atherosclerotic disease; they are smoking‚ hypertension‚ diabetes‚ increased levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL)‚ decreased levels of high-density
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feeling ashamed and not doing any kind of activities or diets and eats more and more and eventually ends up fatter. Which eventually this will cause several diseases to the patient as he/she moves along that way of life. According to Macrae an expert on obese cases stated “Those who are made to feel ashamed about their size are six times as likely to become obese”. (“Telling someone they’re fat”) The implication for this type of problem is for obese patients to listen to their doctor in what
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Communicable Disease: Communicable diseases‚ also known as infectious diseases or transmissible diseases‚ are illnesses that result from the infection‚ presence and growth of pathogenic (capable of causing disease) biologic agents in an individual human or other animal host. Infections may range in severity from asymptomatic (without symptoms) to severe and fatal. The term infection does not have the same meaning as infectious disease because some infections do not cause illness in a host. Disease causing
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