structure and function of the heart‚ it will also explain the meaning of Atherosclerosis and how it can lead to myocardial infarctions and angina. It will also discuss and identify the factors that can increase the risk of Coronary Heart Disease and how lifestyle changes can prevent it. The main function of the human heart is to pump blood around the body. It is a muscular cone shaped organ‚ the average size of the human heart is the size of a clenched fist and weights on average eleven ounces. The heart
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The cardiovascular system is made up of the heart and blood vessels‚ which are divided into arteries‚ veins and capillaries. The blood delivers nutrients and oxygen to the cells in the body. The arteries carry blood away from the heart and the veins carry it back to the heart. Capillaries are found in the muscles and the lungs‚ they have valves to stop the blood flowing backwards and this is also where gaseous exchange takes place. The heart works as a pump that pushes blood to the organs‚ tissues
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Lifestyle Diseases There are many diseases that contribute immensely to the burden placed on a person‚ a family‚ a society and a country‚ and despite advances in medicine‚ the number of people with such diseases continues to increase with people dying younger. In a newspaper article dated back two years stated that in June the previous year‚ Pacific health ministers had declared a non-communicable disease (NCD) crisis because it was revealed that the Pacific was breeding a generation of obese children
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oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor in cardiovascular system. 3a. What’s the partial pressure of O2 and CO2 in oxygen-rich blood respectively? How do they affect the pH value of the blood (6 points)? Decides the development of CO2 and O2 amongst air and lungs‚ amongst lungs and blood‚ and amongst blood and body cells.Blood gets to be acidic when there is an expansion in CO2 content (this relationship will be portrayed further amid your class on blood-gas examination). Since hemoglobin can tie CO2 to its heme bunches
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cardio-vascular risk among ischemic heart patients in Father Muller Hospital‚ Mangalore. INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular diseases are becoming the major cause of morbidity and mortality in most of the developing countries including India. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) encompasses a number of diagnoses‚ including coronary heart diseases‚ hypertension and strokes. Common risk factors of cardiovascular diseases are older age group‚ being male‚ family history of ischemic heart problems‚ cigarette smoking‚ high
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This essay will explain the function of the respiratory‚ digestive and cardiovascular systems and how they work together to produce nutrients and oxygen to the cells for cellular respiration (energy for the body) The first system in the body is the digestive system. When food enters the mouth the salivary glands secrete saliva which mixes with the food. This makes it easy to chew and swallow. Once the food has been chewed enough the food travels down the oesophagus to the stomach. Once the food
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Drug overdoses are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Cardiovascular-active medications are very challenging to treat in overdose situations. Intravenous lipid emulsion therapy (ILE) was first successfully used in local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) in 2006. Since then there have been numerous case reports of ILE being used in other lipid soluble medication overdoses. We describe a case of a combined beta-blocker and calcium channel blocker overdose treated successfully with
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Heart Disease Stephanie Rodriguez CHCP Abstract According to the World Health Organization‚ cardiovascular disease is the most common death in the U.S. These heart attacks and strokes are responsible for more than 15 million deaths worldwide each year. Doctors assure that every day nearly 2‚500 people in many other countries around the world die from heart diseases. In my opinion‚ the heart is a major important
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Communicable Disease: Communicable diseases‚ also known as infectious diseases or transmissible diseases‚ are illnesses that result from the infection‚ presence and growth of pathogenic (capable of causing disease) biologic agents in an individual human or other animal host. Infections may range in severity from asymptomatic (without symptoms) to severe and fatal. The term infection does not have the same meaning as infectious disease because some infections do not cause illness in a host. Disease causing
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The heart The heart is the organ that supplies blood and oxygen to all parts of the body. The heart is located in the chest cavity just posterior to the breastbone‚ between the lungs and superior to the diaphragm. The heart is surrounded by a fluid filled sac called the pericardium. Blood is pumped away from the heart through arteries and returns to the heart through veins. The heart is divided into two halves. The halves are then divided into chambers. The upper two chambers of the heart are
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