Hypertensive Heart Disease. Hypertensive heart disease refers to heart conditions caused by high blood pressure. A number of different heart disorders are caused by the heart working under increased pressure. What does hypertensive heart disease includes? It cause heart failure, thickening of the heart muscle, coronary artery disease, and other condition. Hypertensive heart disease can cause serious health problems and is the leading cause of death from blood pressure. Who is at risk for hypertensive
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Every forty four seconds, someone in the United States has a heart attack. Each year, about seven hundred and fifteen thousand people have a heart attack. Myocardial Infarction literally means “death of the heart muscle”. Myocardial Infarction, a heart attack, occurs when the coronary arteries, that deliver oxygenated blood to the heart, is cut off. This happens when the arteries are blocked by plaque. Once the plaque is formed in the artery, there is no way for blood to get around it and all the
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Splashing a little bit of water on her face didn’t calm Shermane Winters-Wofford’s first date jitters. And then what she perceived as nervousness escalated into sweating and tightness in her chest. Although she didn’t experience the typical warning signs, Shermane was having a stroke. A stroke? How could it be? After all, she thought of herself as perfectly healthy. But it turns out Shermane had been at risk all along. Like many other African American women, she had a strong family history
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are. Pet Therapy is a fairly new and changing technique in the health care field. The hope of pet therapy is that during visits to the hospital it will help divert parent and children’s attention during painful procedures. Thus making the visit a more enjoyable and tolerant experience. It also examines the possible effect of lowering blood pressure on individuals who recently suffered a myocardial infarction or experience cardiovascular problems. Studies show that individuals living in a nursing
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Running head: Stress Living a Stress-Free Life Is it possible to attain a stress free life? Is this a reasonable question to ask? A stress free life seems unimaginable and unattainable. We listen to our doctors whom give us loads of information relating to stress and tell us how to successfully balance your work and home life so that your life can be free from stress, but is there any real way to overcome stressors. If you were to ask 10 people what their definition of stress was
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Final Project, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, and Exercise Plan SCI/241 Version 6 Carlos E. Matta University of Phoenix Final Project, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, and Exercise Plan In my first report I indicated my age 42 years old, my weight was 165 pounds and height 5’6”. My daily exercise was riding bike between 6 to 8 miles a day for 3 days during the week for a total of 350 minutes of Physical Activity. Week one 3 day analysis for breakfast I had a cup of coffee with flavored cream with
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How to fix your cholesterol without prescription drugs (NaturalNews) Though many people still do not realize this, our bodies actually need cholesterol in order to survive, as the brain and central nervous system rely on this important fat to both protect the integrity of neurons and promote proper neural communication and function. But sometimes cholesterol fails to properly assimilate where it needs to go inside the body, or the size and density of cholesterol particles get out of whack due
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To Do List 5/8/12 M.G. Goal 2: Resident will become self reliant with medication Resident will identify pills by color and learn the purpose - Invega- Light pink in color, small oval in size with pal 9 on it. Paliperidone is used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia (a mental illness that causes disturbed or unusual thinking, loss of interest in life, and strong or inappropriate emotions). Paliperidone is in a class of medications called atypical antipsychotics - Levothyroxine-
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In 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian became infamous for assisting individuals who were terminally ill with physician-assisted suicide. Many people frown upon this and even protest saying it’s inhumane. If a family member were on life support and only living because of the tubes connected to their body, what would you do? What if they wanted to die, to be free of pain and agony? What if the hospital they were in, not only denied them this right to die but kept them alive against their will? This was the
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Social Workers and Health Promotion Interventions Social workers can provide 1. Health promotional interventions, including couple and family counseling and self-help and mutual aid groups, to encourage lifestyle changes in amenable clients. 2. These social work interventions may became critical components when client became anxious when their elevated blood pressure remained unchanged. 3. health provider availability on an as-needed basis to consult with social workers for clients with
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