Heart Disease Essays and Research Papers

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Epidemiology The Appalachia describes a region of the continental United States that includes 420 counties in 13 states and home to over 25 million people (ARC, 2017). This region is generally considered to be disadvantaged due to the dearth of human, financial and technical resources that impact on social determinants of health in the region…

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…