Heart Disease Essays and Research Papers

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…

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 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,…

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…

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 human body is very complex in the physiological mechanisms it could sustain. The human physiology ranges from different mechanical, physical and biochemical functions of normal tissues or organs. The human body consists of many systems organs, tissues, cells that all play a role in the way it interacts with medications. Drugs, or a substance…

Introduction This chapter presents the related literature and studies about prevalence of obesity after the thorough and in-depth search done by the researchers. This will also present the theoretical and conceptual framework to fully understand the research and for better comprehension of the study. Related Foreign Literature The federated states of Micronesia (FSM) has received…

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…

Heart Health can connect to Mental Health in many different ways. One way it can connect is if you have a stroke. A stroke can also be known as “brain attack”. When you get a stroke, it could be possible for your heart to stop. When a person has a stroke their blood flow through…