Prevention Plan: At risk for Heart Disease Heart disease is the number 1 killer of American men and women however it doesn’t have to be. There are many steps you can take to prevent and manage heart disease and live a long‚ healthy life. A heart attack occurs when an area of heart muscle dies or is permanently damaged because of an inadequate supply of oxygen to that area.(Jacqueline A. Hart‚ M.D‚ 2003‚ 1) This paper will discuss the various ways to prevent heart disease in a post menopausal woman
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Expository Essay - April Stafford Every individual is bound to encounter some sort of conflict throughout their lifetime. Conflict can be engaged in both a positive or negative way. These disputes play a great role in being human and assists individuals in developing their responses and behaviour. Such battle becomes inevitable as some individuals have their own opinions to share or impose‚ some people all over the world are discriminated due to racial differences. People brought up in an environment
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Prevention Of Atheromatous Heart Disease By O.P. Agarwal‚ M.D.‚ F.I.C.A. Angiology‚ Vol 36‚ Number 8‚ August 1985 Presented at the 31st Annual Meeting‚ American College of Angiology and 26th Annual Meeting‚International College of Angiology‚ November 5‚ 1984. Abstract Five thousand patients of atheromatous heart disease‚ presented as angina pectoris‚ were studied over a period of five years. After adding the “Husk of Isabgol” and “Aloe vera” (an indigenous plant known as ghee-guar-ka-paththa)
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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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Heart disease is the number one killer in many countries. Blockage of the coronary arteries that carry blood to the heart is the major reason for heart disease. It is the main reason contributing to heart attack. A study shows that a person suffers from some sort of coronary occurrence every 29 seconds. Every year‚ around 25‚000 people die in the U.S before they reach hospital due to heart attack. It is therefore important for all to know the facts of disease‚ even if there is no sign of (heart)
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Heart disease is a leading cause of mortality around the world. These diseases can range from coronary artery disease‚ blood vessel diseases‚ to congenital heart defects. Many patients that are affected by these diseases are treated with pills that have hazardous side effects‚ surgeries that induce trauma to the patient’s body (stents for vascular intervention‚ or balloon angioplasty‚ etc) or heart transplants that are dependent on the patient’s immune system. The bodies of these patients under go
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arteries and either partially or completely blocks the blood flow. Diseases like coronary heart disease angina‚ and chronic kidney disease can occur as a result of atherosclerosis. When atherosclerosis affects the arteries in the heart‚ it is known as a coronary heart disease‚ and coronary heart disease is the number one killers of Americans. Atherosclerosis is a progressive disease that starts in childhood. For some people the disease quickly progress in their 30s. For others it does not become a problem
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Heart Defects The human body and DNA is so complicated and has so much to it that small things could make a big difference. Humans are made of so many cells and DNA with different functions and uses but it could all go wrong with one gene. Results of these things happening are known as disorders. From things like Down Syndrome and Heart defects. Heart defects may not seem genetic but could be passed and is a family matter‚ things in a family’s history can show signs. Heart defects also known
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In the book Tangerine‚ appearances are not always what they seem. Do you remember how Paul looked like a nerdy kid on the soccer field and ended up being a star player? Do you remember how Erik acted nice and sweet to adults that were friends of his parents but was a jerk to Paul? Well‚ those are examples of appearances that aren’t always what they seem to be. There are many examples of these appearances in the book Tangerine. As an example to help me explain that appearances are not always
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Hypertension (HTN) is a risk factor for coronary heart disease and account the single most important risk factors for stroke‚ affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide and is considered as one of the top global risk factor for mortality (Kearney et al 2005). The incidence of HTN rises with increasing age; indeed‚ the greater of elderly people have high blood pressure (BP) (Franklin 2006). Suggesting that an individual with normal BP older than 50 years of age‚ the probability during the next
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