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High blood pressure, also known as Hypertension, is a sustained, elevated blood pressure of 140/90 or greater. This condition develops over many years. Blood pressure is determined by the amount of blood the heart pumps and the amount of resistance to blood flow in the arteries. The more blood the heart pumps, the narrower the arteries become and therefore causes a higher blood pressure. Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to serious complications such as heart attack and stroke. Essential…

Abdominal pain is the most frequent reason patients seek hospital admissions, but diagnosis can be a bit challenging due to different associating conditions. The initial goal in diagnosing abdominal pain is to determine if the pain is from a benign entities or from a life threatening condition. The initial step in diagnosing abdominal pain is identifying the location of the patient’s pain which helps limit the differential diagnosis to a conditions that cause pain in a specific abdominal…

treated with a combination of psychotherapy and medication to have better outcomes than those treated with only one or the other. The most common classes of medications used to combat anxiety disorders are antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and beta-blockers. Antidepressants are used to treat depression, but they…

The Risk Factors: There are many risk factors linked and caused by cardiovascular disease some include- aging, sex, family history, smoking, poor diet, high blood pressure, cholesterol, stress, diabetes, obesity, and poor hygiene. Risk factors such as genetics or family history are things that you cannot change. Although it can’t be changed you can certainly fix your environment to help out. Things that you can change, if you notice you do these things, it is never too late to change your diet…

therapists include rubbing multiple types of surfaces at the site of the residual limb to desensitize this area. There have also been different types of neurochemical medications prescribed such as antidepressants, sodium channel blockers, pain-relievers, neuroleptics, and beta-blockers. These medications are used to block or lessen the painful signals being sent in the nervous system. Techniques that are nonsurgical that have shown to reduce pain include TENS, which is transcutaneous electrical…

Congestive heart failure effects approximately 5.1 million Americans, with about 670,000 new cases diagnosed each year (Davidson,2015). In 2009, one in nine deaths were contributed to heart failure (Davidson,2015). The expectancy life span after being diagnosed is approximately five years. It effects mostly the elderly over the age of 65. CHF is a chronic disease that over time gets worse because of the weakening of the heart, increased workload, which reduces the amount of oxygenation that can…

Some medications that a doctor will do to help lower blood pressure are diuretics, beta blockers, angiotensin-converting enzymes (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARBs), calcium channel blockers, and renin inhibitors to name a few. Sometimes through a healthy diet and exercise hypertension can be controlled without medication if it is caught soon enough. People who are affected…

768). Carvedilol is a beta blocker. Beta blockers block beta 1 and beta 2 receptor sites (Kee, Hayes, & McCuistion, 2015, p.608). The effects of the sympathetic nervous system are decreased because the action of epinephrine and norepinephrine are blocked thus causing decreased heart rate and blood…

Muscular dystrophy is a group of noncommunicable diseases that is passed down through heredity lines. Noncommunicable diseases are diseases that developed in humans without other species interference and that cannot be passed between people. Muscular dystrophy can be broken up into nine major forms: Myotonic, Duchenne, Becker, Limb-girdle, Facioscapulohumeral, congenital, Oculopharyngeal, Distal, and Emery-Dreifuss. Muscular dystrophy can appear at any time in one’s life, typically in infancy or…

Blood glucose concentration controlled by two main hormones those are glucagon and insulin. Insulin: Insulin secreted by beta cells of pancreas. Those reducing the glucose level in blood, insulin hormone deposit glucose in liver, muscles and adipose tissue. Secretion makes hypoglycemia. Lack of insulin leads to diabetic mellitus. Treatment by insulin injection or tablets. Leads to may complications. Ex: eye- glucoma Peripheral neuropathy. Myocardial infection. Recurrent…