Essays on Heart Disease

Social Variables and Health Outcomes. There are many different points of view on what causes certain health-related outcomes to occur. When sociologists are trying to determine the cause of health-related diseases they take into account different social variables. These social variables include, class, gender and race. One’s social class can say a lot about their…

Fast food in general, can be quite delicious and filling for many in the world, however, many risks are also attributed to eating fast food due to the many debilitations it can come to cause, primarily with the human heart. Our human bodies are complex constructs that required daily nutrition to function at its peak…

Mrs. S.A is a 96-year-old female who came to the Emergency unit from home with sudden acute decompensation of shortness of breath and peripheral pitting edema +4 in both legs. Upon arriving at the ER the patient’s vital signs were assessed with a blood pressure of 150/79, HR- 100, O2 saturation of 77% in room…

For years doctors and hospitals have expressed the serious of heart attacks in people and because people don’t know the basic symptoms to look for when someone is experiencing one. People are not aware of the dangers of having a heart attack and the foods that can lead to having one. Heart attacks are one…

The positive impact lifestyle modification has on heart disease. Even though one can be born with a heart defect, and while family history exist, age and harsh living conditions are contributing factors. These factors cannot be controlled by lifestyle modification and will not avert or solve a condition if it runs through the DNA of a…

The heart is responsible for circulating blood throughout the body via pulmonary and systemic circulation. At times, the heart develops in utero with deformities, or congenital heart defects, preventing sufficient blood flow from either the right or left side of the heart, or possibly even both. This happens an average of 8/1000 live births (Jayaprasad,…

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are disorders of the heart and the blood vessels which are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and related with 31% global deaths every year.[64] Although pharmacological and interventional treatments are well-established to relief the symptoms and complications (e.g. arrhythmia) to prevent sudden cardiac death, these strategies mainly delay the…

Extreme obesity is also referred to as severe obesity or morbid obesity. This is a health problem that disrupts the basic physical functions of a person and may impact on things like walking and breathing. Other than the impact of morbid obesity to the normal physical functions, it is equally associated with of other chronic…

It is extremely important to know about the alcohol consumption and its relationship to our health, the negative effects of alcohol, and the risks of drinking alcohol. I learned many facts and information about alcohol that I was not aware of. The first thing I learned is that alcohol is a depressant which impairs physical…

Introduction Based on the data of Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2014-2015, 18.3 per cent of Australian nearly 4.2 million adults are having diseases related to Circulation system where 1.2 million are suffering from cardiovascular diseases (Health.gov.au, 2016). Cardiovascular diseases (CD) include blood vessels and heart-related problems that create stroke, coronary artery diseases, heart muscle…