Does Exercise Affect Blood Pressure and Heart Rate? Hypothesis If an individual is put through vigorous exercises‚ then his/her blood pressure and heart rate will be affected because of the increase in activity. Dependent Variables Heart Rate (measured in bpm) Blood Pressure (measured in mmhg) Independent Variables Height Weight Physical Fitness Speed on completing exercise Controlled Variables Types of Exercise Materials Cufflink Heart Monitor Test Subjects 1-5 Procedure
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a study that was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service in Tuskegee‚ Alabama between 1932 and 1972. In the 1920s and 1930s‚ syphilis was a well-known disease. It was known as the “bad blood” disease. The U.S Public Health Service believed that this disease affected blacks and whites differently and conducted an experiment to prove their hypothesis. The Tuskegee Institute joined in with the Public Health Service to help with this study. Investigators brought
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The Tuskegee experiment was yet another demonstration of racial inequalities and dehumanization illustrated by a people who believed in racial superiority. The experiment was unethical and demoralizing from the beginning. The analysis was corrupt and unethical for a plethora of reasons. The experiment disregarded several basic principles of the American Sociological Association’s code of ethics. Perhaps the greatest flaw in the experiment was the intended denial of treatment‚ which‚ in turn‚
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Lillian Acevedo SOC 300 Prof. Dana Fenton March 4‚ 2014 Ethics Reflection Assignment Part A. The CITI Ethics Training spoke of both: Laud Humphreys‚ Tearoom Trade and the infamous Tuskegee Study. The Video‚ The Human Behavior Experiments‚ reported on the Milgram study on obedience and the Zimbardo Prison Experiment. Using one of these four studies as an example‚ explain how the study violated (or not) each of the three basic principles of research ethics: beneficence‚ justice and respect for
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INTRODUCTION: The purpose of the “Blood Pressure and Pulse Experiment” is to determine how postural changes‚ exercise and cognitive stressors affect blood pressure and heart rate. Background The pressure of blood in the circulatory system is‚ also known as blood pressure (BP) is “the force exerted on a vessel wall by contained blood. This is expressed in millimeters per mercury (mmHg)” (Marieb & Hoehn‚ 2016‚ pp. 708). There are two parts to blood pressure: systolic pressure and diastolic pressure
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Syphilis Women’s Health Overview • Syphilis is an STD that can cause long-term complications if not treated correctly. Symptoms in adults are divided into stages. These stages are primary‚ secondary‚ latent‚ and late syphilis. Transmission • You can get syphilis by direct contact with a syphilis sore during vaginal‚ anal‚ or oral sex. Sores can be found on the penis‚ vagina‚ anus‚ in the rectum‚ or on the lips and in the mouth. Syphilis can also be spread from an infected mother to her unborn
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followed. But‚ The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment is one of the best examples of research done with violation of basic ethical principles of conduct. The Tuskegee syphilis experiment was a clinical trial done on human beings between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama‚ by the U.S. Public Health Service. They were doing research related to the natural progression of the disease syphilis. The forty years long study‚ while the initial goal was to follow the route of untreated Syphilis for 6 to 9 months
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conducted an experiment on these men‚ monitoring the late stages of the venereal disease syphilis. These men were of the poorest in Alabama’s society during this period. They were uneducated sharecroppers‚ whom were told that they were being treated for having bad blood. A doctor‚ one of whom had no intentions on curing these men of syphilis‚ indicated that him as well as his colleges‚ had no interest in the patients until they were dead. The initial study was meant to discover how syphilis affected
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Microbiology HW #4: Tuskegee Project In 1932‚ the Public Health Service alongside with the Tuskegee Institute‚ initiated a study relating with syphilis; specifically experimenting if it effected African Americans differently than European Americans. The theory to conduct this experiment was to see if syphilis in the whites experienced more neurological complications whereas blacks were more prone to cardiovascular damage (“The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment”). The experiment involved a total of
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Syphilis Syphilis is an STD that attacks many parts of the body and is caused by a small bacterium called a Spirochete. Syphilis can be transmitted three different ways. It can be transmitted from a pregnant female to her fetus‚ needle sharing which is blood to blood transfusion‚ or when one person’s‚ usually an open sore touches the soft skin of the mucous membrane found inside or around another person genital areas‚ or in and around the mouth. An infant with syphilis may have a damaged nervous
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