Essays Tagged: "Hypertension"
Angina Pectororis
the risk of a heart attack. Coupled with excessive salt intake can produce another problem known as hypertension or commonly called high blood pressure. This can further increase the risk of a heart a ... orking with less efficiency. For example a runner's heart may beat 64 times a minute. A person with hypertension heart rate may be 98. The runner's heart is working with more efficiency; therefore it ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Talks about teratogens which are agents responsible for many known birth defects
frequently heard of conditions requiring prescription drugs that are known teratogens are diabetes, hypertension, and Anxiety. Other commonly heard of non-prescription and illegal teratogens are cocai ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
personal interest topic: hypertension
Hypertension or high blood pressure is defined as a repeatedly elevated blood pressure exceeding 140 ... your heart must work much harder to maintain adequate blood flow to your body (www.lifeclinic.com). Hypertension is known as the "silent killer" because it does not cause symptoms unless it is severel ... blood pressure can damage your arteries, heart, eyesight, and kidneys (www.webmd.com).I have chosen hypertension as my personal interest topic because I was recently diagnosed with this disease. On La ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Explaining Hypertension.
Hypertension is high blood pressure, It is a major health problem. In the United States about 50 mil ... t is a major health problem. In the United States about 50 million people age 6 and older have HTN. Hypertension is a serious medical condition because it may lead to a Heart condition, Stroke as well ... because it may lead to a Heart condition, Stroke as well as many other health related complications.Hypertension occurs when arterioles, small blood vessels that branch of from the arteries, become co ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Polycystic Ovarian Disease.
ere is also a strong connection between PCOS and other medical problems such as insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, stroke, and thromboembolism. There are, however, several new and upcomin ... rome, the deadly quartet (Thatcher 287). Metabolic syndrome is a combination of insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and some times obesity. Taken alone these diseases are very serious, but ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
A literature review on patient transport in Intensive Care units.
may occur in up to 70% of transports. They include a change in heart rate, arterial hypotension and hypertension, increased intracranial pressure, arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, change in respiratory ra ... ons were noted in the latter group, whereas the postoperative patients were subject to hypotension, hypertension or arrhythmias in 44% of the cases.In more recent reports [1, 6, 12, 17, 33, 35, 38] th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
CVD, Nutrition, Exercise
elated illness, so CD's kills someone every 34 seconds. Most common CD's are myocardial infarction, hypertension, stroke and arteriosclerosis-clogged arteries. The symptoms that may cause cardio - vas ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
Anabolic Steroids
ortant topic because anabolic steroids can cause minor to fatal side effects like acne, aggression, hypertension, increased chance of infection and delayed healing of injuries, Cushing's syndrome, enl ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Case Study- Branding Strategy of LTK Omega Egg(Malaysia)
more of Vitamin E compare with ordinary eggs. The consumption of Omega 3 will reduce heart disease, hypertension, LDL cholesterol, breast cancer, colon cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. In additional, ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
High-Blood Pressure
th, the disorder or disease that I will be doing my report on is High blood pressure; also known as hypertension. The system that the disorder comes from is the cardiovascular system. The majority of ... e higher the blood pressure, the higher the risk of suffering one of its complications. People with hypertension are encouraged to: Maintain ideal body weight, reduce the consumption of sodium and mai ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Gastroparesis: A digestive disorder.
the G.I. tract . Other causes of this disorder may include, uncontrolled diabetes with accompanied hypertension, viral infections, gastro surgery with ended injury to the vagus nerve, medications suc ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Clinical Case Study-Hypertension.
ied by loss of balance. [The patient had suffered a stroke]. Because the clinical manifestations of hypertension cannot be diagnosed, it can only be recognized when complications occur in target organ ... entation: Anticoagulant medication and counseling for improvement of lifestyle (i.e. eating habits).Hypertension-Persistently high arterial blood pressure. Hypertension may have no known cause (essent ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Nursing: An account of the subject area.
n the area where I work are: Complication of Diabetes, Chronic Pulmonary Disease, Chest infections, Hypertension, Chronic confusion. I estimate that 80% of our patient fall within the 55 to 80 age gro ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Case Study - Haemodialysis Patient.
y to assess her care needs. She presented with various medical problems, such as diabetes, anaemia, hypertension and anxiety over her sexual function with an altered body image due to the formation of ... sure had risen from 140/85 mmHg to 150/90 mmHg. Normal blood pressure is 120/80 mmHg (www.detecting-hypertension.com). Urine testing showed proteinuria (+3) and blood sampling showed a gradual increas ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Applying Nutrition
ary lifestyle. Specific diseases and conditions linked to poor diet include cardiovascular disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, overweight and obesity, osteoporosis, constipation, div ... ition, and some cancers. Lack of physical activity has been associated with cardiovascular disease, hypertension, overweight and obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes, and certain cancers. Furthermore, musc ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine Paper
m condition or illness, where this is no known cure; examples are arthritis, high blood pressure or hypertension, back pain, allergies, digestive problems, and depression. (AMF, 2000) Oftentimes, conv ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Cialis – A Treatment for Erectile Dysfunction
he penis. Cialis also treats this medical condition as a result of other medical treatments such as hypertension, asthma, depression and diabetes; although age is the most common factor related to ere ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
Omega-3 fatty acids improvements in emotional health.
lected a series of bivariate analyses were conducted to see if which factors led to the increase in hypertension. The results of the Spielberger Trait Anger were reviewed, and based upon the known res ... diseases Player et. al. were able to rate each participants level of anger vs. chance of developing hypertension or CHD.Player and his colleagues found that lifestyle aspects of cholesterol level and ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
The advantages of sports in school
s. On the other hand, people who lead sedentary lives do not exercise and prone to diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and coronary diseases. Thus to avoid these ‘silent killers’, we sho ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing