contributing indicator of these ailments is high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood against your artery walls as it circulates through your body. When you have high blood pressure it can harden your arteries‚ which decreases the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart. This in turn causes chest pain‚ heart failure‚ heart attacks‚ and strokes. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)‚ 67 million U.S. adults have high blood pressure which figures out to be 1 in every 3 adults
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High Blood Pressure Living a healthy lifestyle is the dream of every person but many of us facing the problem of high blood pressure known as silent killer. The research shows that high blood pressure is rapidly increasing and every third person is stuck with disease. High blood pressure refers to pressure of blood against your artery walls that leads to the heart disease and you need to arrest this silent killer before it strikes you as the research shows that above then 50 percent patients with
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Research Strategies for High Blood Pressure High blood pressure or Hypertension effects more than 900 million people world wide (Hajjar‚ Kotchen‚ & Kotchen‚ 2006). This disease can affect both men and women alike and can develop at various ages. Many Americans suffer from high blood pressure and many do not know they even have this disease. High blood pressure puts an individual at risk of stroke‚ heart attack‚ and death. The purpose of this paper is to describe a research strategy toward finding
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lives of many people in America. Atenolol‚ also known as Tenormin‚ is placed in a group of remedies known as beta-blocker. As a Beta-blocker‚ Atenolol is used to treat a range of bodily disorders in connection with anxiety and tension‚ such as high blood pressure‚ angina‚ irregular heart rhythms‚ migraines‚ prevention of a second heart attack‚ tremors‚ alcohol withdrawal‚ anxiety‚ and glaucoma. The three main malfunctions atenelol is used for are alcohol withdrawal‚ anxiety disorders‚ and cardiac disorders
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LABORATORY REPORT (Click on the Save a Copy button on the panel above to save your report) Activity: Name: Instructor: Date: Effect of Exercise on Arterial Pressure and Vascular Resistance Abbie DeBerg Ms. Brantley May 30‚ 2012 Predictions 1. During exercise increase. 2. During exercise decrease. 3. During exercise increase. Materials and Methods 1. Dependent Variable HR‚ SV‚ BP 2. Independent Variable level of activity 3. Controlled Variables age‚ gender 4. Identify one variable
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Assistance and Blood Clots The body is designed to protect itself. One of the keys to this protection is the blood’s ability to clot. Every time a person is cut‚ scratched‚ or needs to heal from a wound‚ they should rejoice that their blood has the ability to clot and stop the bleeding. Sometimes‚ a blood vessel inside the body will be injured and the blood will clot inside the body. Other times‚ blood will pool in a vein due to improper blood circulation‚ and the stagnant blood will clot. Cracks
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DEMENTIA AWARNESS 1.Understand what dementia is 1.1 Explain what is meant by the term ’dementia’ A syndrome due to disease of the brain‚ usually of a chronic progressive nature in which there are multiple disturbances of higher cognitive function. These include impairment of memory‚ thinking and orientation‚ learning ability‚ language and judgement. 1.2 Describe the key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia The key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia are the temporal
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NJ249 NURSING CRITICALLY ILL ADULTS: HIGH DEPENDANCY All nurses should possess critical care skills to enable them to impact positively on their patients care (DH 2000). The Higginson and Jones (2009) state‚ in BJN‚ that the initial assessment of the critically ill patient vary but should follow a pattern based on assessing A‚ B‚ C‚ D and E‚ in other words airway‚ breathing‚ circulation‚ disability and environment. This essay is concerned with the altered physiology
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Blood Pressure Anatomy And Physiology Breven Sellers 11/3/2014 Arteries • Arteries are thick walled‚ yet they are elastic enough to stand pressure from the heart pumping at a fast rate. The arteries job is to transport blood away from the heart‚ usually only transporting highly oxygenated blood‚ having just left the lungs and on its way to the body’s tissues Arterioles • There are smaller branches of the arteries called arterioles‚ they connect to the capillaries. • Arterioles are the main
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Assessing Blood Pressure Anatomy of the Heart The heart is located in the thoracic cavity between the lungs within the mediastinum. It is a hollow‚ cone-shaped‚ muscular organ about the size of a fist. Functions of the Heart keeps O2-poor blood separate from O2-rich blood; keeps the blood flowing in one direction—blood flows away from and then back to the heart in each circuit; creates blood pressure‚ which moves the blood through the circuits; Regulates the blood supply based on
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