cause of death among women in the United States (US) is heart disease; it is also the leading cause of disability among women. Currently‚ “8 million women in the US are living with heart disease; 35‚000 are under the age of 65” (Women’s Heart Foundation‚ 2011). Among American women in 2005 over 36 million were age 55 or older increasing their risk of coronary heart disease (Garvin‚ Moser‚ Riegel‚ McKinley‚ Doering‚ & An‚ 2003). . Coronary heart disease claims the lives of over 200‚000 females yearly
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Essay – Heart of Darkness and Red Heart Red Heat is a novel written by Victor Kelleher set somewhere in the post-greenhouse future. This novel is a version of the nineteenth century Heart of Darkness‚ first published in 1902 and then re-published by Joseph Conrad. There are many similarities within the plot of these two novels from travelling up a dangerous river to dealing with a power crazy man. There are many similarities in the two books‚ one of which is that the heroines; Marlow‚ Heart of Darkness
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The heart is an organ that acts as a ‘’pump’’ because it pumps blood continuously that is rich in a high concentration of oxygen throughout the organs of the human body such as the brain. Blood is carried through tube like structures called blood vessels such as the artery and the vein. The arteries carry blood from the heart at high pressure which contains a high concentration of oxygen and nutrients to supply the organs. Veins carry blood at low pressure to the heart which contains a high concentration
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person who has a heart that is ten times bigger than anybody you know possess and you struggle to keep it from jumping out of your chest most days. The truth is that you are going to be misjudged ninety percent of time and to most people you may come off as crazy. We live in a world that people are so consumed with themselves and are broken by their past that they tend to close themselves off from the rest of the world. People may show a glimpse of caring for others’‚ but their heart does not beat for
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him to great heights of creativity and the depths of paranoiac despair. Yet although he produced a relatively small volume of work‚ he virtually invented the horror and detective genres and his literary legacy endures to this day. In the Tell Tale Heart the main character‚ the narrator‚ has a problem with an old man‚ the antagonist‚ whom he is living with. The odd thing is that the problem has nothing to do with old man‚ how he acts‚ or even his attitude towards the narrator. It is simply one of the
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Kennedy‚ Eisenhouwer and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs by Trumbull Higgins I have always wondered about the history and surrounding factors of the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. I lived in Miami for seven years and have always wondered why Cubans had an air of entitlement‚ that United States owes them something. The explanation that I was given‚ when I felt comfortable asking about this‚ was that the United States failed them. That for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba the United States led the Cuban
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Age___18_____Resting Heart Rate(bpm) __70____ Maximum Heart Rate (bpm)_220_____ -__18____= ____202__ Target Heart Rate (bpm)_202_____ -_70_____= _135_____ _135_____X __.5____=___66___+ __70____= ___136___ (lower) ___135___X __.85____=__114.7____+ __70____= ___184.7___ (upper) Part II Heart Rate after step/cardio test ____135_____ 3524250267970 Was this person within their target heart rate? (Please circle) Yes or No Participant #2: _______Savanah Spinter___________ Age___14_____Resting Heart Rate(bpm)
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What is the heart? The heart is the organ that supplies blood and oxygen to all parts of the body. It is about the size of a clenched fist‚ weighs about 10.5 ounces and is shaped like a cone. The heart is located in the chest cavity just posterior to the breastbone‚ between the lungs and superior to the diaphragm. The heart is surrounded by a fluid filled sac called the pericardium. Blood is pumped away from the heart through arteries and returns to the heart through veins. The major artery of the
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actions. But for unknown reasons following the Revolutionary War‚ the award had “broken service” and was not presented to anyone for approximately 150 years. However‚ it was redesigned in the 20th Century and is now known as the Purple Heart. One example of the Purple Heart is displayed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Speller of Windsor‚ N.C. The medal was issued in 1967 in honor of my cousin Ronnie Speller who died while serving in the Vietnam War. The medal was accepted in his honor by his parents
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Scientific Basis Congestive Heart Failure is a disease in which the heart is unable to properly keep up with the amount of blood being sent to the heart. The heart muscle itself‚ in the case of heart failure‚ is unable to sufficiently pump the blood away from the heart and to the body to keep up with the incoming deoxygenated flow. This failure to pump blood can build up pressure and cause additional pumping resistance. The decreased cardiac output of heart failure causes the circulation to become
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