Heart disease describes many conditions that affect a person’s heart. This includes many conditions from diseases of blood vessels‚ problems in heart rhythm‚ and conditions of heart defects (“Heart Disease”). More than 610‚000 people die each year because of heart disease and 735‚000 die of heart attacks‚ making heart disease the number one leading cause of the death in the U.S. (“Heart Disease Facts”). There are many causes that have been linked to heart disease such as high blood pressure‚ diabetes
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A solution to Heart Disease By: John Palsson Heart diseases have emerged as a big problem today and the biggest contributor to this increment has been the increase in rate of obesity. Heart diseases are fatal and they can also impair the other parts of the body. Hence knowing about the problems and solutions related to heart diseases are vital as they can also help you to combat them and retain good health throughout your life. Information on these heart diseases is vital because knowing more about
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Congenital Heart Disease Steven J. Walton Florida State College at Cecil North Center Congenital Heart Disease Congenital Heart Disease can be described as a number of different problems affecting the heart. According to professors at many universities‚ it is the most common type of birth defect. It is said that Congenital Heart Disease is responsible for more deaths in the first year of life than any other birth defect. Some of the defects may heal over time‚ but others will require treatment
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Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a chronic heart condition that accounts for approximately 2% of all cardiovascular mortalities worldwide. It is most prevalent in developing countries where the actual disease burden is higher due to overcrowding‚ poverty and the lack of sufficient health care. The indigenous people of Australia and New Zealand‚ Africa and south-central Asia are at the greatest risk of suffering this disease. “The average annual incidence of acute rheumatic fever in children aged
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COPD which is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is known as a condition that progressively makes it harder to breathe because the airflow into and out of the lungs is reduced. This usually occurs because the airways and air sacs lose their elastic quality‚ the walls between the air sacs are destroyed‚ the walls of the airways become swollen‚ or if the airways are clogged because they made more mucus than usual. Three main conditions of this disease are emphysema‚ chronic obstructive bronchitis
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Chronic and Acute Diseases Kidney Disease Kidney disease is known as kidney damage or decreased kidney function‚ and can result in kidney failure. Untreated it can kill you. Signs and Symptoms. These are symptoms of kidney disease. One sign is high blood pressure‚ another is sweat crystalizing on your skin. People with kidney disease also have a higher chance of cardiovascular disease. Another symptom is increased protein in your urine. Causes There are three main causes of kidney disease.
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Coronary Heart Disease Coronary heart disease‚ also called coronary artery disease or ischemic heart disease‚ it characterized by an inadequate supply of oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle (myocardium) because of narrowing or blocking of a coronary artery by fatty plaques. If the oxygen depletion is extreme‚ the effect may be a myocardial infarction (heart attack); if the deprivation is insufficient to cause infarction (death of a section of heart muscle)‚ the effect may be angina pectoris
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Heart and Respiration diseases What is a cardiovascular disease? Cardiovascular disease or heart disease is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels. Cardiovascular diseases are very deadly. It remains the biggest cause of deaths worldwide. Cardiovascular disease refers to any disease that affects the cardiovascular system‚ principally cardiac disease‚ vascular diseases of the brain and kidney‚ and peripheral arterial disease. The causes of cardiovascular disease
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Heart Disease in African American Women Monique Boatner Tabor College Heart Disease in African American Women The target group of the population intervention is African American women ages twenty-five and thirty-four‚ lower to middle class‚ in Birmingham‚ AL. When performing the intervention in this population subset the measurable objectives are the increase of the women who check their blood pressure on a regular basis and can voice whether their blood pressure is normal or high
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Chronic Disease Risk Uterine Cancer Mindy Hatt SCI 162 January 3‚ 2013 Julie Mathews Chronic Disease Risk Uterine cancer is of the lining of the uterus or womb. This lining is known as the endometrium. Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female reproductive tract. Risk factors are bleeding after menopause is usually the first sign. If that happens‚ the chances are one in three that you have this cancer. For women who haven’t gone through menopause‚ bleeding
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