...Heart Attack Amongst Asian Women David Chambliss HCS/245 April 14, 2014 Professor Leah Miller Heart Attack Amongst Asian Women What is a Heart Attack? A heart attack occurs when the blood flow that brings oxygen to the heart is reduced or completely cut off by a blood clot. This happens because coronary arteries that supply the heart muscle with blood flow can slowly become narrow from buildup of fat, cholesterol, and other substances that together are called plaque. When plaque in a heart artery breaks, a blood clot forms around the plaque thus blocking the flow of blood to the heart muscle. According to “Women’s Health” (2010), “Asian – American women have much lower rates of heart disease than other women. Yet, heart disease is still the second leading cause of death for this group”. For Asian women heart disease is second only to cancer. Heart disease strikes Asian-Indians and other South Asians especially hard. It tends to affect South Asians at a younger age, plus genetics and lifestyle factors both play a role in heart disease risk. The heart attack rate is four times higher for Asians than whites in the United States. Women of any nationality can lower their heart disease risk by as much as 82% just by leading a healthy lifestyle. Keep a healthy weight, make physical activities a habit, and eat a heart healthy diet. Overweight and obesity are risk factors for heart disease. Asian Americans need to be aware that a small amount of...
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...Community Health Promotion Tool Kathleen Weber HCS/245 November 23, 2015 Kristene Diggins Community Health Promotion Tool Heart disease is the leading cause of death of women in the United States. There were 60% more women who died from a cardio vascular disease that all other cancers combined in 2004 ("Women'Shealth.gov: Heart Disease Fact Sheet", 2012). One in four women dies from heart disease each year in the U.S. These are staggering numbers suggesting that a person is more likely than not to know someone who will die from a heart attack or stroke than from cancer. Only 54% actually recognize heart disease as the leading killer of women (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). Heart disease is a term used to cover a range of silent diseases that affect the heart including, but not limited to, coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, and congenital heart disease ("Heart Disease: Definition", 2015). These diseases are “silent” because many times there are not symptoms suggesting a problem before the patient experiences a heart attack or stroke (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). Then main cause of heart disease is a buildup of plaque in the arteries that can cause narrowing or a complete blockage which in turn leads to heart attacks or strokes ("Heart Disease: Causes", 1998-2015). An unhealthy diet, smoking, obesity, and a lack of exercise can all lead to narrowing and blockage ("Heart Disease: Causes", 1998-2015). Each of these things is correctable...
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...Current Article 2 HCS/245 Kristene Diggins October 29, 2014 Jamikka Waremercer People with Mental Health Disorders at Risk for Heart Attack and Stroke. This article talked about people with mental and behavioral disorders being twice as likely to have heart disease or strokes. The article states that cardiovascular congress of Canada did a study about how this could be possible. The population is already at risk for stroke and heart attack, but if you have a mental disability the chance is greater. There were also some doctors that surveyed and explored data from the Canadian community. They were looked at and then there was an association between the cardiovascular risk and disease, and mental health disorders. They also looked at the uses of medications used for mental disorders as well. What the article showed was that people who have had mental health issues probably have heart disease. Those who have not had heart disease or stroke are more likely to be at a high long-term risk of developing it when compared to general population. People with psychiatric medications are twice as likely to have heart disease three times as likely to have a stroke. This study that they are speaking of are usually are for people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, major depression, anxiety, but the medications are looked upon as maybe having something to do with this diagnosis as well. The medications that the article spoke of were Antidepressants, mood stabilizers...
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...Material Body Systems and Diseases Complete the table below for the required systems listed. You are required to list four to six of the main organs of each body system, one or two sentences explaining the function of the system itself in your own words, and a short list of five to six major diseases that afflict each system. This assignment is due in Week One. |System |Organs in the System |Function of the System |Major Diseases Afflicting the System | |Nervous System |Brain |The most impost important |Alzheimer | | |Spinal Cord |system in our body which |Parkinson | | |Peripheral System |assist the nerve impulses to |Epilepsy | | | |control what is receive and |Stroke | | | |process. |Multiple sclerosis | |Cardiovascular System |Heart |The cardiovascular system |Coronary artery | | |Blood Vessels |helps food and air (oxygen) to|Heart attack ...
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...Effects of Disease on the Health Care Industry: Cardiovascular disease HCS/245 Patricia Talbert Due: 03/16/2015 University of Phoenix Material Effects of Disease on the Health Care Industry: Cardiovascular Health Complete the table below for 2 diseases that you have chosen that affects cardiovascular health. In each box, you are required to list 3-5 bulleted statements regarding the heading of that box. Cite your sources using APA format. This section is due in Week Three. |Chosen Cardiovascular Disease |Treatment Modalities |Cultural Beliefs/Practices |Epidemiological Statistics |Available Consumer Resources |Impact on Society | |or Disorder | |Affecting this Disease | |(ex. financing, information, support) | | |Coronary Artery Disease |Quitting smoking and avoiding |Heart disease is a man's disease. |Cardiovascular diseases cause |The CDC addresses heart disease. Great |According to the Centers for Disease | | |secondhand smoke. |(MYTH) |nearly one-third of all deaths |source for researching information. |Control and Prevention, heart disease | | | | ...
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...COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Angelia Alleyne HCS/245 May 4, 2015 Professor Lori Olson COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is a long-term disease that causes breathing problems. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide. COPD, however, is a heterogeneous collection of diseases with differing causes, pathogenic mechanisms, and physiological effects. Therefore a comprehensive approach to COPD prevention will need to address the complexity of COPD. Advances in the understanding of the natural history of COPD and the development of strategies to assess COPD in its early stages make prevention a reasonable, if ambitious, goal. Prevention can be classified as primary, secondary, or tertiary (Rennard, Drummond, 2015). The term COPD is used to describe certain diseases that partially block airflow in the lungs. The most common kinds of COPD include: Emphysema and Chronic bronchitis and other diseases. Emphysema can cause damage to the alveoli that cannot be cured; this is the tiny air sacs of the lungs where oxygen is put into your blood. With emphysema your lungs become less able to take in good air and get rid of carbon dioxide. Chronic bronchitis occurs when the airways in the lungs become swollen; this causes more mucus than normal to be made in the lungs. The swelling and increased mucus can cause the airflow to become partially blocked. Chronic...
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...Bronchitis HCS 245 June 6, 2014 Michelle Clemons There are two different types of bronchitis, acute and chronic. They include inflammation of the airways leading to the lungs, but have different causes and, durations. Chronic bronchitis is a lifelong condition that results from continued exposure to lung irritants, such as smoke. While they have similar names, acute and chronic bronchitis are different illnesses. A person with chronic bronchitis can have flare ups of the disease and can even get acute bronchitis. Acute bronchitis is a relatively short illness that results from an infection. Acute bronchitis is usually due to an infection and generally lasts for no more than a few weeks and will resolve either with treatment or on its own. In most cases, short-lived, or acute Bronchitis follows a viral respiratory infection of some kind, and usually will go away on its own within a week. It can be caused by the same viruses that cause the common cold and could be a complication of the cold or flu. Symptoms of acute bronchitis include; dry cough, shortness of breath, chest tightness, wheezing, and fatigue. This respiratory disorder may be a short-lived disorder, or in some cases a long-lived, chronic, disorder. The order in which this disorder spreads through your body is as follows, your nose, sinuses, throat, and then spreads to the lungs. In other cases, there is a possibility you may get second bacterial infection in your airways. Some people that are at a higher risk...
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...Psoriasis: More than skin deep HCS 245 January 10, 2010 Psoriasis is a noncontagious common skin condition that causes rapid skin cell production resulting in red, dry patches if thickened skin. Although, psoriasis is classified as dermatologic disease, it doesn’t start in the skin, and its damage may be more than skin deep. In fact, the very name is borrowed from an ancient Greek word meaning an itchy or scaley condition. Psoriasis is a chronic condition that strikes both male and female from infancy to the elderly. It can range from mild to severe. Environmental factors play a role; psoriasis has been linked to psychological stress, obesity, smoking, alcohol, strep throat, viral infections, lack of sunlight, and certain medications (antimalarial drugs, lithium, beta blockers, etc.) Psoriasis comes in many forms and about 90% of patients have the plaque type, which is sharply demarcated salmon-pink plaque of inflamed skin covered by silvery scales(July, 2010). Other types of psoriasis include: • Guttate psoriasis- The second most common form of psoriasis. Gutta means droplet. Patients have numerous small, red, scaley spots scattered on the arms and legs. The trigger to the disease is usually a streptococcal (bacterial) infection. The eruption of the lesions on the skin usually happens about 2-3 weeks after the person has strep throat. The outbreak can go away and not reoccur. Outbreaks may also go away and come back, particularly if the person is a strep carrier...
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...Aids Shatara Jackson HCS/245 January 23, 2014 Carla Sassano Aids The first cases of what would later become known as AIDS were reported in the United States in June of 1981.1 Since then, more than 1.8 million people in the U.S. are estimated to have been infected with HIV, including over 650,000 who have already died; today, more than 1.1 million people are living with HIV. (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2013)When I read that statement my heart sank to know that there were so many people living with HIV. When you hear about it, it makes you stop and think about every decision that you have ever made in your sex life. In my paper I want to discuss what the article was about and the disease in a whole what it is and what treatment options are out there for people living with HIV/AIDS. This is the medical definition of AIDS is a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy. The definition of HIV is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that attacks the immune system. Your immune system protects you from germs that cause infections and make you sick. If HIV is in your system, over time, it lowers the number of healthy immune cells (CD4 cells) that you have to fight infections. (Aids.gov, 2013) Once you get one of these they are a life time disease because there are no cures out at this time for HIV/AIDS. But there are treatment options to help make things comfortable...
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...Asthma Prof. Dunbar Feb 02 2015 HCS 245/ Introduction to Health and Disease Asthma is a respiratory disorder marked by breathing difficulty caused by temporary narrowing of the bronchi, the airways branching from the trachea to the lungs. Attacks usually are brought on by allergic reaction to ANTIGENS such as grass and tree pollens, mold spores, fungi, animal dander, and certain foods but may also be caused by chemical irritants in the atmosphere or by infections of the respiratory tract. Susceptibility to an asthma attack is based on hyperactivity of the bronchial muscles, which constrict on exposure to one or another of these agents. Episodes of asthma vary widely in severity and may last from a few minutes to several days. They may begin at any age but usually occur in childhood. In children, asthma often is associated with eczema, a skin inflammation that may reflect the tendency of the child to develop hypersensitivity reactions. The attacks usually become less frequent and less severe over the years and disappear in about half of all affected children before adulthood. In one form of asthma, called intrinsic asthma, however, the attacks become less frequent and less severe, but recovery between them is less complete. The bronchi in such patients become chronically narrowed, causing a progressive loss of capacity for physical exertion. The prevalence of asthma is only about 1 or 2 percent worldwide but varies greatly from country to country. In the United States...
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...Children and Asthma Cultural Disease Paper HCS/245 University of Phoenix Rochelle Faith Cordray Professor Cathy Coyle May 19, 2012 Asthma is a respiratory disease. It is obstructive to the airways, causes an increase in mucus and its secretion. It is brought on my environmental factors such as chemicals and allergies. If a person can make the differentiation between the two strains of asthma, then it will be easier to figure out what causes (triggers) the attack then avoid those things that they may be allergic to. The two types of asthma are: Intrinsic (non-allergic) asthma is treated differently from extrinsic (allergic) asthma (http://www.livestrong.com/article/105659-description-asthma/). Knowing what kind of asthma a person has enables the individual to know what triggers or allergens to avoid. It affects the lungs. When it comes to diseases found in children, asthma is one of the most common. A child’s lungs and airways become swollen and narrowed when affected with like a whistle when breathing), and shortness of breath. Most often the cough is present early in the morning or at night. Most often starting when a person is very young, asthma can affect people of all ages. At times the symptoms are mild and can go away alone or must be treated with an inhaler. Symptoms can also become so bad that the affected person requires hospitalization. In America, 22 million are known sufferers. Almost 6 million...
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...Liver Cirrhosis Your Name HCS 245 April 16, 2014 University of Phoenix Dr. Tobey Tam Liver Cirrhosis As the Directors at the Sharp Rees Medical Facility, we will be talking about the liver. The liver is a very important organ in the human body as it does not just perform one function but is involved in multiple tasks. Some interesting facts about the liver; it weighs under five pounds, it has a shape like a half football and everyone is born with one. Just like most other disease or disorder, if the liver has not been taken care of properly there are many negative outcomes that can affect and destroy the liver. There are many complications when the liver is abused or damage for example cancer, hemochromatosis, gallbladder or even liver cirrhosis (Lee, 2014). We will be focusing more about liver cirrhosis. Liver cirrhosis has been the 12th leading cause of death in the United States in 2010 (Murphy, Xu, & Kochenek, 2013). We will primarily focus on liver cirrhosis also known as Hepatitis C, provide you with general information as well as the possible solutions, data regarding the infected population and giving some resources/awareness about this disease. To start is to give information about liver cirrhosis. This disease causes the liver to be scarred and damaged. The liver is damaged with scar tissue in and around the liver as new cells are trying to restructure but instead they turn into regenerated nodules (Lee, 2014). The redeveloped nodules are what give...
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...Culture and Disease Bipolar Disorder in the United States Briana M. Bowers HCS/245 October 19, 2011 Rebecca Johnson BIPOLAR DISORDER IN THE UNITED STATES It is well known that diseases come in many forms. Whether the illness is physical or mental, the treatment for one should be as equally important as the other. Mental illnesses can affect the way one lives their lives. Depending on the severity of an individual’s mental illness can sometimes develop a physical disability if untreated. Bipolar Disorder is a mental illness defined as “a manic-depressive illness. It is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks” (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2008). Bipolar Disorder is easily described as a “roller coaster of emotions”; this meaning a person can switch between high and low emotions/behaviors at any given time. It has also been noted for an individual to experience hallucinations or delusions, depending on the severity of the current state that person is in. An article on Bipolar Disorder found on Health.com and reported on CNN.com notes, “2.4% of people have been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. Out of an 11-nation study, the United States has the highest lifetime rate of Bipolar Disorder at 4.4%, and India with the lowest at 0.1%” (Gardner, 2011). Bipolar Disorder comes in different forms. Bipolar Disorder I is “mainly manic or mixed episodes that last at least seven days...
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...Disease In The News Norman Fountain HCS 245 January 12, 2011 Betty Abraham-Settles Disease In The News In the spring of 2009 I was serving in the Army at Fort Gordon, GA. I was awakened early in the morning by the Administrative Officer of the Day (AOD). I was informed I needed to put my Company on alert and report in to Headquarters (HQ) for a briefing at 0600 (6:00 a.m.,). Once I was dressed and reported in for the briefing, I was informed there was an outbreak of Swine Flu coming from out of Mexico. I was to gather my Soldiers and inform them of this information and to ensure we had no family members in danger and leaves and passes were suspended until further notice. The significance of the event of a Swine Flu outbreak was headline news in most newspapers across the nation. In The New York Times April 27, 2009, an article titled, U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu (McNeil, Jr., 2012), illustrates the reason for my call early in the morning and why the need to put my Company on alert. The article outlined the possible global pandemic stemming from swine flu cases from Mexico. In the United States 20 cases of the swine flu were confirmed during this time, leading American health officials declaring a public health emergency. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed eight illnesses from the H1N1virus in Queens, NY. Those illnesses came from St. Francis Preparatory School and prompted the Mayor of NY Michael R. Bloomberg to ensure...
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...Diabetes and Pregnancy HCS/245 Instructor September 10, 2012 Abstract Being pregnant is a very exciting time in a women’s life. The thoughts of bring a new life into the world can be exciting and scary at the same time. A woman can have diabetes before becoming pregnant and they can also develop diabetes during pregnancy, this called Gestational diabetes. In the past, women who were known to have diabetes were discouraged about becoming pregnant due to all the health problems for the mother and the health problems that a baby could develop before being born (WebMD, page 1). A few of the health problems for the mother would be: miscarriage, premature delivery, low blood glucose at delivery, eye problems, worsening kidney problems, and preeclampsia just to name a few. The health problems for the baby would be birth defects, prolonged jaundice, respiratory distress syndrome, and being born prematurely and all the problems that go along with being premature. Another common problem with babies of pregnant women with diabetes is that they have very large babies. This happens because the babies receive too much sugar from the mother and it turns to fat which in turn increases the size of the baby. This can make the baby to large to be delivered naturally and a cesarean delivery would then be necessary. As stated in WebMD, “once delivered, the baby could develop dangerously low blood sugar right after delivery because of high levels...
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