Heart Disease, also known as Coronary Artery Disease, is the single most common cause of death in men and women each year, which is more than breast and prostate cancer. Heart Disease is abnormal function in blood vessels to the heart. The blood flow to the heart is damaged because of blockages to the coronary arteries, which could eventually block blood flow or cause ruptures leading to heart attack or sudden cardiac death. Many people who have been diagnosed with heart disease may live for years
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Name: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest Kaiser Foundation Hospitals HR #: DOB: Clinician: Personal Health Profile Medications (Prescription and over-the-counter drugs) Drug Names Strength Frequency Medical Office: Occupation: Medication Allergies Drug Reaction Major Surgeries or Injuries (Include year if known) Other Hospitalizations (Include year) Have you been treated for any of the following? Yes No Yes No Yes Diabetes High Cholesterol High Blood
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NEVER SICK AGAIN HEADACHES : FISH (PROTEIN) Eat lots of fish as fish oil helps to prevent headaches. So does ginger which reduces inflammation and pain. MEMORY PROBLEMS : OYSTERS Oysters help increase your mental functioning by supplying much needed zinc. HAYFEVER : YOGHURT Eat lots of yoghurt before pollen season. COUGH : RED PEPPER A substance similar to that found in cough syrup is found in hot red pepper. STROKES : TEA Prevents buildup of fatty deposit on artery walls with regular
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Epidemiology Paper Allison Brown Nur 408 May 14, 2012 Prof. Pamela Orr Epidemiology Paper People have many health concerns and diagnosis that presents to the current public health as daunting. The first step in any medical situation regarding a person’s health is prevention that is talked among the professionals in the health community. This will be the only way to help the cycle to break that will further prevent other diseases from occurring. Using epidemiology and the epidemiology triangle
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"More than 400 police officers have participated in the study to date, with the researchers aiming for 500. The clinical examination involves questionnaires on lifestyle and psychological factors such as depression and PTSD, in addition to measures of bone density and body composition, ultrasounds of brachial and carotid arteries, salivary cortisol samples and blood samples. The officers also wear a small electronic device to measure the quantity and quality of sleep throughout a typical police shift
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Benefits of Physical Fitness Physical Fitness has many positive benefits for a person’s body. Exercise provides health benefits, increases strength and energy, enhances a person’s appearance, which helps with self-esteem and also relieves stress. A major health benefit from exercising is reducing the risk of heart disease. Exercise will help increase the HDL (good cholesterol) to LDL (bad cholesterol) ratio. Estimates are that 96.8 million American adults (51 percent) have blood cholesterol values
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Patient Education Plan Paper NUR/427 2/26/12 MSN Patient’s description Patient is a 45 year old male that presented to the family physician office to follow up on his recent diagnosis of high blood pressure that was noticed during his annual physical examination at the company he is working for. He has a high pressure position at his job and he is expected to meet certain sale quota each month and admitted to feel
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Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study Summary Background Although more than 80% of the global burden of cardiovascular disease occurs in low-income and middle-income countries, knowledge of the importance of risk factors is largely derived from developed countries. Therefore, the effect of such factors on risk of coronary heart disease in most regions of the world is unknown. Methods We established
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Heart disease affects so many people that it has become a serious concern about medical science. The heart is a complex organ that is vulnerable to hereditary as well as environmental risks. Cardiologists think of these risk factors as either major or minor causes of heart disease. There are several major and minor causes of heart disease. The first major cause of heart disease is family history. Family history risk is included people’ DNA because if one of your siblings has had a heart attack
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A 54-year-old woman wishes to establish care without specific complaints after her primary care physician retired. She stopped smoking (2 packs per day) 6 months ago after a close friend died of lung cancer. A radionuclide stress test two years ago was normal at 85% predicted heart rate with an LVEF 55%. She takes amlodipine for hypertension, and metformin for type 2 diabetes mellitus. She leads a sedentary lifestyle and does not note any functional limitations. Her blood pressure is 147/92 mm Hg
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