Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure Heart failure occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood for the body due to a weakened or damaged heart. The heart’s pumping action moves oxygen-rich blood as it travels from the lungs to the left atrium‚ then on to the left ventricle‚ which pumps it to the rest of the body. The left ventricle supplies most of the heart’s pumping power‚ so it’s larger than the other chambers and essential for normal function. (American Heart Association). In left-sided
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Female Dominance or Male Failure? James Thurber illustrates the male species’ status with respect to‚ " Courtship Through The Ages" with a humorous and melancholic tone. He emphasizes the lack of success males experience through courtship rituals and the constant rejection we endure. Our determination of courting the female with all our " love displays" may be pointless as it is evident in the repetitive failures of courtship by all male creatures. Thurber shares his problems with courtship
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A Conspiracy Theory: Has a Cure for Diabetes Been Discovered? A topic of interest in the medical field for any disease is always finding a cure. But what if one has already been found? Moreover‚ what if it’s being hidden by pharmacies and drug companies to protect the large profits these companies make off of patients? Many conspiracists believe that this is occurring today‚ specifically with diabetes. Though pharma companies do have a large impact on drug and cure research‚ there is simply not enough
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destination that everyone should come once time in their life " Ha Long " . Ha Long is one of seven nature wonders of the world. Visiting Ha Long bay‚ you can experience the diversity of natural views‚ from sandy beaches to thousand year old rocky mountains. Why should you choose Ha Long bay to visit ? The word Ha Long in Vietnamese means the dragon descends into the sea and he legend says that the island of Ha Long was created by a great dragon who lived in the mountain‚ it sounds very interesting. First
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Ha Jin is a contemporary Chinese author and poet who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and has written many books of short story collections. “The Bane of the Internet” is fairly new and part of a collections of stories published in his 2009 book “A Good Fall”. Characters like the eldest sister in “The Bane of the Internet”‚ immigration to the land of opportunities shows the loss and gain of her life. Jin created the character of the eldest sister to dramatize the lives of the Chinese
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Background Heart failure (HF) is a condition in which the heart muscles lose its ability to pump sufficient blood to the body. It’s considered as one of the leading causes of death in the U.S with an estimated direct and indirect cost of $39 billion per year.1 Bioenergetics dysfunction is common in HF patients‚ which leads to energy starvation of the cardiac cells.2 Therefore‚ some medical providers encourage their patients to take ubiquinone‚ a lipid-soluble antioxidant‚ as an adjunct HF therapy
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Chronic Heart Failure In 1988 Sir James Whyte Black was honored with a Nobel Prize for medicine for his efforts in the discovery of the beta blocker propanolol and the histamine receptor agonist cimetidine. Beta blockers were originally developed to treat angina pectoris but were discovered to also treat hypertension‚ tachycardia‚ an myocardial infarctions. The discovery of propanolol was said to be the greatest discovery since digitalis. The mechanism of beta blockers treating CHF is not exact
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Definition Of Cardiomyopathy The heart is the most important muscle in the body. According to Patient “The heart has four chambers‚ two atria and two ventricles. The walls of these chambers are mainly made of specialized heart muscle called the myocardium.” [1] Usually‚ the heart is a size of a fist. The main function of the heart is pumping the blood around the body. However‚ there are a lot of diseases that can affect the heart such as cardiomyopathy‚ which is the main character of the heart can not
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Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too‚ the number of providers continues to rise rapidly. A new law enshrining the rights of all children to free and compulsory education will further lift enrolment‚ bringing closer the government’s goal of universal elementary education‚ which comprises eight years of schooling
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are ourselves an inspiration to ohers. So who has inspired me? Well‚ as a young person there were many people who inspired me. I didn’t have a particularly easy childhood‚ as I grew up in relative poverty and my parents divorced when I was aged 8‚ after a traumatic marriage. Still‚ I managed to developed a fairly positive‚ life is a "glass half full" attitude‚ due in the main to positive people who inspired me. Some of them were family members‚ who managed to be positive in the face of adversities
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