TitleHeart Disease 1.What Is Heart Disease? The topic of heart disease usually centers on heart attacks but there are many other problems that can compromise heart functions, injure the heart tissues, or cause heart disease. Most of the major problems include coronary artery disease, heart failure, arrhythmias, and cardiomyopathy. The following slides will present these heart problems and their warning signs 2.Heart disease facts Heart disease refers to several conditions that
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Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a progressive lung disease that makes it hard for someone to breath by limiting the airflow of oxygen in and out of the lungs. COPD is a deteriorating disease that worsens as time goes on that affects over 12 million people in the United States (U.S.). It is characterized by inflammation and severe limitation of airflow in and out of the lungs. COPD is an umbrella term used to describe a group of breathing conditions. Most people age 40 and older with a history of smoking (either
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Annotated Bibliography Toni Pease Ivy Tech Community College Cunha, D. (2014, September). Why Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Is a Waste of Taxpayer Money. In The Washington Post. Retrieved February 17, 2016, from http://web.b.ebscohost.com The findings of drug testing the recipients before giving them the benefits of welfare was proven to be a waste of tax payers’ money rather than helping ensure their money isn’t being wasted on the less desirable. The state of Tennessee did a case study on
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be a comprehensive and concise source of reliable information for the educated consumer. In contrast to smoking, which has decreased due to improved public health awareness, overweight and obesity have steadily increased — particularly over the last twenty-five years. On average, obesity shortens life by six to seven years. Excess weight increases the risk of deadly diseases such as heart disease, stroke and cancer. One of the great ironies of advances in medical technology is that deaths due to heart
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exposed to second hand smoke by their parents and can not choose to walk away from it like an adult can. Just consider how many adults smoke in the car when they have a child as a passenger. The media is full of commercials on cancer and smoking letting all know about that health risk. But besides lung cancer, there are other problems associated with the second hand smoke, especially in young children. Smoke in the Air
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Nursing Practice MAJOR CONCEPTS - Health of all persons regardless of the presence or absence of disease (Newman, 2010) - The nurse helps to understand people to use the power within to develop the higher level of consciousness. - signs and symptoms of the diseases vary on the individual so the pathology of the diseases occur before the symptoms appear therefore removing the disease symptoms do not change the individual. - if becoming sick is the only way an individual’s way
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but I also have my fair share in eating salt and sugar. I am involved in cheerleading at my high school. I also work in a restaurant; which means I walk a good seven or eight miles a day going to and from the kitchen and my tables. The effects of smoking, physical inactivity, poor diet, and drinking alcohol, establish poor health. However, few studies have showed the combined influence of these behaviors. This is important because people often engage in multiple poor lifestyle choices that could shorten
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Renée Murray COMM 230 June 30, 2008 Overweight & Obesity Attention Step I. Overweight and obesity may soon cause as much preventable disease and death as cigarette smoking. II. Right now, about 300,000 U.S. deaths per year are because of obesity and overweight. Cigarette smoking is compared at more than 400,000 deaths per year. III. The total direct and indirect costs because of overweight and obesity were $117 billion in the year 2000. Need Step I. Overweight and
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Diabetes Mellitus Michelle McCormick SCI/163 June 24, 2013 Charles Ware Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes mellitus is a disease affecting millions of people each year, according to the American Diabetes Association in 2011 8.3% or 25.8 million Americans suffer with diabetes. Diabetes is a disease where the body does not produce insulin, does not produce enough insulin, or does not react properly to insulin. Insulin is a hormone the pancreas releases to allow blood glucose to enter cells to produce energy
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Smoking is the most common cause due to which lung cancer is occurs, it can be seen by the stats i.e. more than 80% of cases. The reason for this is as cigarette smoke contains many chemicals which affects our body's way of filtering the air in the lungs. Smoke not only irritates lungs but also produce the mucus in large amount. It has the ability to paralyses the hair like tiny structure known as cilia whose purpose is to clean the lungs from dust and dirt. So this leads to accumulation of the toxic
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