2.2 Epidemiology Hypertension which is sometimes called high blood pressure is a medical condition manifested by a rise in the blood pressure in the arteries. It is described as a “silent killer” (WHO, 2013) because warning signs and symptoms are often lacking and most people may not even know that they are suffering from it. Globally, the burden of hypertension and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is rapidly increasing, and the African continent may be the most affected region in the world
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Tiarra Ehret 6/27/2016 Heart Disease Exam Part One Your heart is an organ in your body that is a muscle, but it is the pump that supplies blood to your whole body. Heart disease is a term for any disorder that affects the heart. The name heart disease is also called an Umbrella term. In this umbrella term heart disease consists of coronary heart disease, heart attack, cardiac arrest, congestive heart failure and congenital heart disease. Another name for heart disease is cardiovascular disease.
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The differential diagnosis associated with this type of dyslipidemia are; hypercholesterolemia, Mixed hyperlipidemia, and other and unspecified hyperlipidemia (Tharpe, Farley, and Jordan 2013). Comparing the above lab results with the normal range of total cholesterol: <150mg/dL. The patient’s risk factor for cardiovascular accident is high, therefore diet modification, life style change and lastly medications should be added if the above proved unsuccessful. Although cholesterol is essential for
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Having a glass of wine a day may actually keep the doctors away. Recioto has interesting information about it such as its background, going great with certain desserts, and having great healthy benefits. People usually think that since wine is considered alcohol, it is automatically bad for you and that it has no health benefit at all what so ever. Rumors also reveal that wine is only for sipping by itself and nothing can go with its taste. Well people are incorrect about the information they are
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High blood pressure or hypertension is a common issue. In fact, about 67 million Americans deal with high blood pressure. The blood is vital for life. It circulates through the arteries and veins. The blood supplies crucial nutrients and oxygen to all the cells and organs and removes waste and carbon dioxide. The pressure created when the heart beats, which stimulates the blood flow is blood pressure. The first force is created by the heart pumping blood out into the arteries, and the second occurs
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Case study 2- Cholecystitis Symptomatic vesica unwellness is common within the u. s. and ends up in some 750,000 cholecystectomies per annum. The overwhelming majority of cholecystectomies square measure performed for calculus unwellness with steroid alcohol gallstones accounting for nearly seventy fifth of all gallstones. Super saturation of steroid alcohol in gall, the nucleation and growth of crystals within the vesica, and vesica dysmotility square measure necessary factors in calculus pathological
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I chose the patient, William Bentley who is 59 years old male for Week 6 Forum topic. His medical history is he has shortness of breath with progressive since 3 months ago. He is a heavy smoker for over 40 years and alcohol consuming, too. There are some risk factors in order to treatment under the hospital. If he doesn’t control his shortness of breath, he has to admission, immediately. I focused assessment his shortness of breath on week 6 forum. There is activity intolerance due to short of
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Pathophysiology Blood normally flows silently through the heart, however there are conditions that can create a turbulent blood flow. Conditions that contribute to turbulent blow flow include increased blood velocity, structural valve defect, valve malfunctions, and abnormal chamber opening (Potter, Perry, Hall, & Stockert, 2013). Hypertension is a condition that can cause increased blood flow throughout the heart is. Hypertension is associated with thickening and loss of elasticity in the arterial
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Discussion: The purpose of this experiment was to determine how various drugs will affect basal heart rate of daphnia. This is relevant because due to Daphnia’s similar cardiac tissues to humans (Woodham et al., 2017), it can be seen how various drugs will affect human cardiac tissue. Acetylcholine and Lidocaine have been hypothesized to decrease heart rate in Daphnia. Epinephrine and Caffeine are proposed to increase heart rate. In regards to Acetylcholine and Lidocaine, it was hypothesized
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. There are many differences in JNC VII and JNC VIII one noted difference than practitioners are likely is ease of use. The new recommendations seem to be easier for practitioners to use and implement into care (global research). Research for JNC VIII recommendations seem to be very evidence based, expert opinion, and systematically reviewed whereas in JNC VII recommendations seem to be very expert based (JNC). The initial treatment choice for JNC 7 was thiazides, this recommendation has not been
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