stimulus from a nerve source. It means your heart pumps without something making it. 8. To determine cardiac output in the field, we must rely on heart rate and the strength of the pulse to estimate it. 9. Ischemia is decreased blood flow. Atherosclerosis is where there is a buildup of cholesterol and calcium, they form plaque inside the walls of blood vessels. They decrease the flow of blood. 10. Angina is when the heart tissues aren’t getting enough oxygen. This gives the patient chest pain
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com/health/heart-disease-prevention/WO00041 Don't smoke or use tobaccoSmoking or using tobacco is one of the most significant risk factors for developing heart disease. Chemicals in tobacco can damage your heart and blood vessels, leading to narrowing of the arteries (atherosclerosis). Atherosclerosis can ultimately lead to a heart attack. When it comes to heart disease prevention, no amount of smoking is safe. Smokeless tobacco and low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes also are risky, as is exposure to secondhand smoke. In addition
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Analyse health revision notes 1. Cirrhosis Pathogenic process includes: 1. Necrosis of liver cells 2. repair by fibrosis 3. regeneration * Liver cells exposed to toxins become inflamed, liver cells then infiltrated with fat and white blood cells and are replaced by fibrotic tissue. * If damage continues over a long period of time more liver cells are replaced with fatty tissue and scar tissue, cirrhosis can develop. * Liver regeneration continues abnormally, the
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PAST MEDICAL/SURGICAL HISTORY: Patient has a history of a myocardial infarction (MI, or also known as a heart attack) in 2004, she had a hip pinning in 2005, and a traumatic amputation of fingers on her left hand in 1974 from a lawnmower accident. Pt lived on her own until 4-27-12 when her family found her lying on the floor in her home. Pts family brought her to live with them but pt continued to have episodes of falling and hitting her head. Pt was taken to the ER and given a Ct
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builds up in the arteries that supply blood to the heart (called coronary arteries). Plaque is made up of cholesterol deposits, which can accumulate in your arteries. When this happens, your arteries can narrow over time. This process is called atherosclerosis. Plaque buildup can cause angina, the most common symptom of cardiovascular disease. This condition causes chest pain or
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Gillian Swanson Writing Assignment #1 - Cholesterol 9/28/15 Lipids are essential to all cells; they provide structural support and energy reserves and account for 12-24 percent of the total body weight of adults (Martini, Nath, & Bartholomew, 2014). There are five major classes of lipids, but of particular interest are steroids. Steroids are large lipid molecules that serve a few important purposes in the human body. Some steroids serve as signaling molecules and others are important
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coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease (CAD) because it involves the coronary arteries. Other types of CVD include hypertension, congestive heart failure, stroke, congenital cardiovascular defects, hardening or narrowing (atherosclerosis) of the blood vessels, including the coronary arties, and other diseases of the circulatory system. The majority of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is caused by risk factors that can be controlled, treated or modified, such as high blood pressure
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should be taken immediately to a medical facility for diagnosis and treatment. The causes of stroke: An artery to the brain may be blocked by a clot (thrombosis) which typically occurs in a blood vessel that has previously been narrowed due to atherosclerosis ("hardening of the artery"). When a blood clot or a piece of an atherosclerotic plaque (a cholesterol and calcium deposit on the wall of the artery) breaks loose, it can travel through the circulation and lodge in an artery of the brain, plugging
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Interleukin-8 (IL-8) is a chemoattractant cytokine produced by a variety of tissue and blood cells. Unlike many other cytokines, it has a distinct target specificity for the neutrophil, with only weak effects on other blood cells. Interleukin 8 (IL-8) or CXCL8 is a chemokine produced by macrophages and other cell types such as epithelial cells, airway smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells. Endothelial cells store IL-8 in their storage vesicles, the Weibel-Palade bodies. In humans, theinterleukin-8 protein
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I chose to go with climate change because whether or not we like it the weather is constantly changing around us. They have many names for it but the one that I am most familiar with is global warming. If I had to compare and contrast the climate control of global warming I would say that it doesn’t hold a candle to indoor air pollution. Rising global temperatures have been accompanied by changes in weather and climate. Many places have seen changes in rainfall, resulting in more floods, droughts
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