The main risk factor for stroke that could be controlled is high blood pressure. Other risk factors that could be controlled include diabetes caused when the body does not make or use insulin properly‚ heart diseases such as cardiomyopathy‚ coronary heart disease and heart failure‚ smoking which causes damage to blood vessels and raise blood pressure‚ alcohol and drug abuse‚ and obesity. Risk factors for stroke that cannot be controlled are age‚ gender‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ and heredity. The risk of having
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The Risk Factors Of Falls And The Causes Various conditions increase your risk of falling‚ and these risk factors include: a vitamin D deficiency‚ problems with vision‚ lower body weakness‚ poor footwear‚ balance problems or difficulties walking‚ use of particular medications (inlcluding anti-depressants‚ tranquilizers‚ and sedatives)‚ pain in the feet‚ as well as hazards in the home. Those hazards include clutter‚ throw rugs‚ uneven flooring‚ and broken steps. However‚ there are often multiple
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Cardiovascular risk factors There are many risk factors associated with coronary heart disease and stroke. Some risk factors such as family history‚ ethnicity and age‚ cannot be changed. Other risk factors that can be treated or changed include tobacco exposure‚ high blood pressure (hypertension)‚ high cholesterol‚ obesity‚ physical inactivity‚ diabetes‚ unhealthy diets‚ and harmful use of alcohol. Of particular significance in developing countries is the fact that while they are grappling with
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* What are some risk factors that may be controlled to prevent serious illness? Do any of these controllable risk factors apply to you? What can you do to eliminate these risk factors in your life? We can prevent serious diseases if we have strong immune systems‚ so we have to strengthen them‚ we can take vitamin c daily. We can ingest fruits every day‚ citrus fruits are more important‚ they are rich in vitamin c. and we could take supplemental vitamins to help our body become stronger to prevent
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A risk factor that I believe is important to keep in mind when counseling male offenders with either schizophrenia‚ bipolar‚ or depression pertains to homelessness. Homelessness is an issue that needs to be addressed in order to help clients overcome barriers. Individuals that are released from prison or jail have few resources‚ thus are in need of services. In this case‚ male offenders that have a mental illness may struggle with homelessness. Solomon and Draine (1999) illustrate that the main
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Lesson 10‚ #3. List and describe several common risk factors for developing osteoporosis. Describe the key behaviors of someone trying to limit their risk of developing osteoporosis. Everywhere we turn these days we see celebrities that are on TV promoting various types of medication for one ailment or another. One of the commercials that plays quite often these days is with Sally Field telling women about medication to help prevent osteoporosis. While I don’t care for celebrities hawking medication
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Interesting Quotes from the book * Explaination from the book how each model work and why it is not quite a good idea too rely too much on them * “When the model is too simplistic it might not explain what happened‚ but if it is too complicated‚ the model contains too much noise—just as reality contains too much noise.We all know that we have a financial crisis‚ but we do not immediately see why we have it.” * “The problemis not in themathematics itself. Themodels are inherently logical
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2- Major risks in Starbucks at domestic region and its potential solution: Starbucks faces 3 major risks and challenges which leads to the declining profit rate. According to Starbucks researches there is a mismatch of their policies with customers’ expectations. They thought that they can increase their profit by increasing their stores day by day but they fail to provide customers satisfaction. Their prices are still high than of the competitors and they failed to satisfy the newer generation
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ETIOLOGY Over Exposure to the Sun and/or Tanning Beds are risk factors for Melanoma. It is thought that the Ultraviolet light rays from these affects the Melanocytes (Mayo Clinic Staff‚ 2016). Caucasians; those with light hair‚ eyes and skin have a higher risk for melanoma (Meffert‚ 2016). PATHOLOGY Melanoma develops in the melanocytes‚ which produce melanin (Mayo Clinic Staff‚ 2016). Melanoma causes overproduction of melanocytes (The American Cancer Society Medical and Editorial Content Team‚ 2016)
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Advantage of the Four-Factor Model over Current Evaluation Techniques A fund’s investment performance is measured by its risk-adjusted return (alpha) which is the return of the fund minus the return of the fund’s benchmark. A fund’s perfect benchmark is a portfolio that (1) is fully diversified and (2) has precisely the same exposures to sources of risk (risk factors) in stock market returns as the fund. Forty years of capital markets’ research indicates that there are four risk factors in returns; a
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