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    walls of your arteries. Over time‚ this excess can create a fatty

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    and mouth. It can also cause heart attacks and strokes. Cigarette smoking accounts for 30 percent of all heart disease deaths. The carbon monoxide in the burning smoke causes more cholesterol clogging in the arteries. Smoking causes the artery walls to stiffen‚ and the chance of an artery rupturing increases. Nicotine can raise your blood pressure‚ heart rate‚ and the oxygen in your heart. A coronary spasm may occur

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    Tightness in his chest Josephs risk factors are a long list that begins with a family history that he’s ignoring. He is gaining weight‚ creating more work for his heart; smoking‚ constricting blood flow; eating a high fat diet which is clogging arteries and not providing nutrients to the body. On top of all that his job is stressful and he’s not sleeping well at night allowing the body to rejuvenate and heal. He feels tightness in his chest which is more than likely caused by his smoking and adding

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    stayed the same as when the subject was at rest. The reason DBP stays the same or falls in dynamic exercise is because during dynamic exercise‚ arteries dilate‚ reducing blood pressure. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) rises due to more blood being pumped into circulation‚ which increases the volume of blood in the arteries‚ thus increasing pressure. When the arteries dilate in dynamic exercise they also cause the total peripheral resistance (TPR)‚ to decrease. The drop in diastolic blood pressure and rise

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    known as a myocardial infarction. A heart attack is when a part of the heart muscle is damaged or dies because it is not receiving oxygen. A heart attack is the death of heart muscle and it is caused by a sudden block of a coronary artery by a blood clot. Coronary arteries are blood vessels that supply the heart muscle with blood and oxygen. Causing injury to the heart muscle can cause chest main and pressure. If blood flow is not restored within 20 to 40 minutes permanent damage and death to the heart

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    disease is commonly caused by a buildup of plaque which narrows the arteries and reduces blood flow causing platelets‚ red and white blood cells in the artery to clump together forming a blockage (DeSilva‚ 2013). Atherosclerosis is defined as ‘disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of fatty material on their inner walls’ ("Oxford Dictionaries"‚ 2016) which eventually completely blocks the blood supply from the artery to the heart leading to a myocardial infarction and damaging the heart

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    to identify the blood in the brain of these postmortem apoplexy patients he also was the first to discover that some had blockages in their main arteries. These findings led to the renaming of apoplexy to cerebrovascular disease." (AHA) There are basically two types of strokes‚ ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. Ischemic stroke occurs when an artery supplying blood to the brain becomes blocked and suddenly stops or decreases the amount of blood to the brain which ultimately causes an infarction

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    Beliefs/Practices Affecting this Disease Epidemiological Statistics Available Consumer Resources (ex. financing‚ information‚ support) Impact on Society Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Current treatments are focusing on improving the central cardiopulmonary abnormalities‚ such as decreased ejection fraction and increased capillary wedge pressure. These are interventions aimed at improving the peripheral changes that

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    Research Caffeine is a bitter white crystalline alkaloid. Its chemical formula is CaH10N4O2. Caffeine also affects the human body. It is widely consumed by people of all ages. In the last period a market of caffeine-containing products‚ particularly energy drinks and food supplements increased. Caffeine for years is under discussion‚ whether it has positive adverse impact on health. Children are a group of special anxieties. Caffeine is a stimulant of central nervous system and

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    your vitals. Blood pressure refers to the force of blood pushing against artery walls as it courses through the body .Although many of you may not think that pressure of the blood system is not such a fascinating concept‚ it does play a very important role when taking vitals. Blood pressure is the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries. Each time your heart beats‚ it pumps out blood into the arteries. Your blood pressure is highest when your heart beats‚ pumping the blood

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