Hypertension is often associated with obesity‚ and losing weight can result in a significant drop in blood pressure. Sodium has long been linked with an increased occurrence of hypertension. However‚ reducing salt intake can decrease the incidence of hypertension. People often used diuretic drugs to treat high blood pressure and the most common drug is called “thiazide” diuretics
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Pathophysiology of Ovarian Cancer Joseph Santa Maria NUR-334-01 Salve Regina University Cancer is a condition that has the ability to affect people in all different types of ways‚ and in all different body systems. Women however may be likely to develop a specific type of cancer in the reproductive organs named the ovaries‚ or ovarian cancer. One of the downsides of this type of cancer is that its symptoms can be moderate for various months and may lead women to suspect the disturbances
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Hypertension Health Hazard in the African American Communities Hypertension (HTN) is a genetic disease which tends to run in families. Even though every race and ethnicity can be affected by HTN the highest prevalence is in the African American communities (Opara‚ Hawkins‚ Sundaram‚ Merchant‚ Rasmussen & Holmes‚ 2013). During my survey‚ I conversed with 50 people in my community‚ 48 had a mother or father with HTN‚ the other two were uncertain. Twenty-five of the 50 people I conversed with admitted
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University of Phoenix Material Understanding Economic Issues Worksheet This simulation looks at providing health care insurance coverage from the standpoint of a health maintenance organization (HMO). As HMO executives‚ your obligation is to provide health care for the members you insure. You must do this with a high degree of quality at a price that covers services rendered. To do this‚ you must offer only those services you may provide at the cost the customer can pay. In this simulation‚ you
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"Hypertension" Sherelle Washington HS200-26 Unit 4 Capstone Project: Hypertension Kaplan University 10/28/14 There are different ways to diagnose your blood pressure. The most common way is to use a blood pressure machine or monitor. The doctor normally takes an inflatable cuff and put it around your arm. The machine gets turned on and the cuff begins to tighten a little around your arm. While the cuff is tightening the machine is checking your blood pressure. Once the cuff deflate
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Potassium bicarbonate‚ is in fact‚ a prominent source for maintaining heart health. The January 2010 publication of the journal‚ Hypertension‚ published a study of the relationship between the effects of daily potassium supplement and “cardiovascular risk factors” of people with “mild hypertension”. The study showed that the participators with mild hypertension showed a “significant decrease in stiffness of large elastic arteries‚ improvement in left ventricular diastolic function and endothelial
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A 62-year old diabetic black man presents in the emergency room with a swollen left leg with areas of blanching and blue mottling. A "foul odor" is coming from a dressed wound. The physicians remove the dressing and a brownish fluid is seeping from a wounded area. The fluid contains what appear to be small bits of the tissue. No pus appears to be present. The wound has a strong "rotten" odor. Five days earlier‚ while at his work as a farmer‚ he caught the leg in his manure spreader‚ sustaining a
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Name: Nancy Jimenez BCS 210 Case Study – Case 3 – My Heart is in my Stomach This case is found in your textbook: Case Mysteries in Pathophysiology by Patricia Neafsey‚ page 19. 1. Mrs. V. is a 52 year old woman. She reported that her last period was 3 months ago but her pregnancy test was negative. Explain why the pregnancy test was done. 2. Evaluate her blood pressure and pulse rate. 3. Her history and evaluation states that she is having occasional PVC’s. What does that
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HEMATOLOGY ORGAN SYSTEMS SMALL GROUP ANSWER KEY Case 1 1. Iron deficiency vs thalassemia vs anemia of chronic disease. 2. Serum iron‚ TIBC‚ ferritin. 3. Blood loss‚ likely GI. A GI evaluation is indicated. 4. Slow response (weeks) to oral iron. 5. Incorrect diagnosis‚ non-compliance‚ continued blood loss. Case 2 1. Anemia of chronic disease vs iron deficiency. 2. Serum iron‚ TIBC‚ ferritin. 3. Consistent with ACD‚ but also iron deficiency with inflammation. 4. Bone marrow iron stain
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On The Alert for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension On The Alert for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Summarized by: Joanne Marie Tarrobal-Baynosa Arellano University - INP Summarized by: Joanne Marie Tarrobal-Baynosa Arellano University - INP By Vincent M. Vacca‚ Jr.‚ RN‚ CCRN‚ MSN Nursing Journal‚ December 2009 Issue By Vincent M. Vacca‚ Jr.‚ RN‚ CCRN‚ MSN Nursing Journal‚ December 2009 Issue Nurse Vincent M. Vacca‚ Jr. aptly described in this issue of the Nursing Journal the significance
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