Heart and Respiration diseases What is a cardiovascular disease? Cardiovascular disease or heart disease is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels. Cardiovascular diseases are very deadly. It remains the biggest cause of deaths worldwide. Cardiovascular disease refers to any disease that affects the cardiovascular system‚ principally cardiac disease‚ vascular diseases of the brain and kidney‚ and peripheral arterial disease. The causes of cardiovascular disease
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The purpose of this lab was to find my and my fellow classmates resting heart rate and record it. There were seven people in the class and we all participated in this study. There are four places to check heart rate and they are in your wrist‚ the inside of your elbow‚ the side of your neck‚ or the top of your foot. Everyone used the wrist or their radial artery. We used our middle and index fingers to gently feel for the radial artery in each others pulse. I then counted the pulse for 10 seconds
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Introduction Everywhere‚ we see people smoking where most of them are men. It has become a trend and a daily necessity to smokers. Therefore‚ it is very difficult to control smoking habit. However‚ benefit of smoking only for certain things such as increasing in economy income and chance of jobs but as for individual‚ it will only bring harm rather than good. Body A. Topic Sentence Most of smokers which are men have a lack of awareness about disadvantages of smoking. There are several
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is heart disease. A couple reasons why people are so overweight are lack of exercise‚ poor diet‚ and unfortunately also heredity. Heredity is major factor when dealing with heart disease or any disease in general. Since genes are a factor into people’s health; people should definitely know all chronic disease in their family. In my family heart disease is a major issue unfortunately. Many of my family members suffer or suffered from heart problems. Since my family has a history of heart problems
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Journal 1: Nerves The first article I read about was called‚ ‘I Wasn’t Nervous Beforehand‚ but When I Got Up There I Thought I Was Having a Heart Attack.’ The main assumption behind the theory in this section is that it is better to over-prepare for a public speaking event than to under prepare for it. To know how you react to that pressure is the key to success‚ because then you are able to combat your reaction to the stressful situation. If one were to ignore this theory‚ then they might be very
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coronary heart disorder. there are numerous unique varieties of coronary heart disorder. The most common reason of coronary heart disease is narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries‚ the blood vessels that deliver blood to the heart itself. this is called coronary artery sickness and happens slowly through the years. it is the principal cause humans have heart attacks. other styles of coronary heart problems may additionally show up to the valves in the heart‚ or the coronary heart might not
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smoking itself is a high risk to contract the disease. Non-smokers also have to pay attention to the air they are breathing because the smoke around you can kill you! What is heart disease? Many of us at a young age believe that heart disease can only happen to "older" people. The truth is that heart disease has to be considered while a person is young‚ how a person takes care of their body inside and out will determine what diseases are in store at an older age. For instance‚ cardiovascular
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Congestive Heart Failure Congestive Heart Failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the needs of the rest of the body (Department of Health & Human Services‚ 2012). The failure can occur in on either side of the heart. In left-side heart failure‚ fluid backs up into the lungs‚ causing shortness of breath‚ due to the fact that the blood entering the left side of the heart comes from the pulmonary artery‚ and when the left ventricle cannot pump fluid out of the
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor 20 Naval Vessels and over 200 planes were destroyed when the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on the date December 7‚1941at 8 A.M. . Japanese planes flooded the skies over Pearl Harbor the Japanese flew all night and planned the attack for months then it finally happened.The japanese were ready to spread across the south pacific.The attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed 20 American Naval vessels and caused America to declare war on Japan And Japan attacked the Pacific fleet.
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were involved in this hate crime. It’s quite sad. It’s very difficult to say why exactly we were attacked‚ but I’m sure whoever was responsible for this had more than one motive. I’ve heard numerous reasons and some people think we should attack; others think we should make peace. I personally think that if we don’t fight back and let everything go‚ we’ll be attacked again. If it takes bombing Afghanistan‚ then that’s what it takes. Whatever needs to be done to put this to a cease‚ needs
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