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They can also damage the function of your heart and the structure and function of your blood vessels. The damage done by these chemicals make a smoker susceptible for atherosclerosis. This is a condition in which a plaque like material builds up in the arteries. This build up makes it difficult for blood to flow smoothly throughout the body. Coronary heart disease occurs when plaque builds up in the arteries of the heart. CHD can lead to heart failure, heart attack, or even death. A smoker is…

Yoga: Physical and mental health benefits of yoga How has yoga helped people throughout the world? Yoga is an ancient practice that came from India. Yoga most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. Yoga is famous all around the world because it has helped improve many people’s lives. Yoga has many physical and mental benefits: it relieves stress, increases flexibility, and improves circulation. One of the mental benefits of yoga is that it relieves stress. Yoga "creates…

of normal human body’s functions. Physio (physical) Logy (study.) There are two different types of anatomy, which are Gross Anatomy and Microscopic Anatomic. Gross Anatomy refers to the structures that can be seen with the eyes. For example: the heart, the liver, and the kidneys. There are several subdivisions of Gross Anatomy such as; surface anatomy, regional anatomy, and systemic anatomy. Surface anatomy focuses on the external parts of the body. For example: legs and head. Regional anatomy…

term memory loss. Stress can lead to hair loss or even balding, which mainly is our own fault due to poor diet and health. Stress can ruin your teeth, People tend to grind their teeth more when they are stressed out. Stress can physically damage your heart muscles. Stress can make you age faster by not letting telomeres (structures on the end of chromosomes) grow at a normal speed, which leads to the signs of ageing: wrinkles, poor eye sight, weak muscles, and more. (A.D.A.M;…

60 to 75 min/week at vigorous intensity. A body weight regulation is a beneficial effect of physical activity. (CM Friedenreich, et. al, 2015) An aerobic exercise is a physical activity that could cause an individual to breathe harder with a faster heart beat than at rest and could excrete sweat while doing exercise. It could also strengthen your cardiovascular system to enhance the deliver oxygen throughout your body. This…

Chilaiditi’s sign-which is an extremely rare radiographic sign is an incidental radiographic finding of interposition of a colon segment between the liver and the diaphragm. Chilaiditi sign can be initially misdiagnosed as a diaphragmatic hernia or pneumoperitoneum that can need unnecessary surgeries.We report a patient with type-2 diabetes mellitus, who was incidentally diagnosed with Chilaiditi’s sign in order to attract attention to this extremely rare occasion and avoid unnecessary surgery.…

The definition of the term is as follows. General adaptation syndrome (GAS) is the predictable way the body responses to stress as described by Hans Selye (1907-1982). The three phases are Alarm Reaction, Resistance and Exhaustion. 1. Alarm Reaction The first stage of the general adaptation stage, the alarm reaction, is the immediate reaction to a stressor. What is stressor? Any urge, force, or pressure (that is, deleterious force) brought to bear on a person, bodily system, or governmental…

REASON CHIEF COMPLAINT: Heart failure. Coronary artery disease. Atrial flutter. BLANKLINE This patient had an acute MI _____ and underwent three vessel coronary artery bypass grafting at that time. He states he had a cardiac catheterization elsewhere about four years ago and they did not perform any intervention at that time. He has had a transthoracic echocardiography and stress nuclear imaging test that has shown EF of 40%. His last nuclear imaging test showed only mild inferior…

The human shoulder is made up of three bones: the clavicle (collarbone), the scapula (shoulder blade), and the humerus (upper arm bone) as well as associated muscles, ligaments and tendons. The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder. The four muscles of the rotator cuff are over half of the seven scapulohumeral muscles. The four muscles are the supraspinatus muscle, the infraspinatus muscle, teres minor muscle, and the subscapularis muscle. The…

To estimate time of death, we can first narrow down the window on the timeline by looking at the stages of rigor mortis and lividity. At the autopsy, it was observed that the victim was in full rigor mortis. The human body is typically in full rigor, or stiffness of the muscles, between 8 to 24 hours after death, during which time the muscles become completely stiff and stay stiff before rigor mortis dissipates (Crowe, n.d.). In this case, it may have been affected in that this process might…