Heart disease

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is the obstruction of blood vessels that supply the heart muscle, due to the deposition of lipid material [1]. The risk factors affecting the prevalence of CHD within Australians today are presented in Figure 1. Figure 1: The risk factors affecting the prevalence of Coronary Heart Disease in Australia (extracted from [2] and [3]) Modifiable Risk Factors Non-Modifiable Risk Factors Diet, containing saturated fat and salt Increasing age Hyperlipidemia Gender…

predicted to happen and what actually happens forces the reader to really examine the characters. Louis Mallard has a heart condition making sudden shocks…

In Kate Chopin's short story ¨Desiree's Baby¨, Irony is the main point of the story. Situational Irony is shown throughout the story. This starts with the unknown past of Desiree and concluding with the realization of what Armand had done to his wife. In the story it is stated between context of how the racial superiority is for the family's name. Armand once said how much he adored and loved his wife, but later led her to kill herself along with their baby. ¨That is, the girls obscure origin.…

The article titled “Do changes in traditional coronary heart disease risk factors over time explain the association between socio-economic status and coronary heart disease?” was written by Peter Franks, Paul C Winters, Daniel J Tancredi and Kevin A Fiscella to examine whether changes in Coronary heart disease risk factor overtime explain the association between status and coronary heart disease due to its relevant risk assessment in clinical decision making. It is unknown whether changes in…

(lipid) that has a waxy appearance and found in the body cells of humans and animals, particularly the brain, kidneys, and liver. High amounts of cholesterol in our diets and blood can be viewed negatively because it is associated with coronary heart disease. 1 However, it is important to recognize that our bodies need cholesterol in many different ways. Cholesterol is a member of a large group of substances called steroid, which include vitamin D. Cholesterol is an essential component of cell…

and the last one submitted by being so deeply in love. In “The Story of an Hour” it talks about a woman in marriage wanting freedom to try to find herself. The woman, Mrs. Mallard, is having heart problems in her marriage which is represented with her having heart trouble “Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a Heart trouble”. She does not agree with the restrictions of being married .she believes that the end of marriage will set her free and give her the ability to follow her dreams. Hearing the…

In “My Year of No Shopping,” American author Ann Patchett (2017) assesses how one can sacrifice his/her desires in order to save money, time, and other valuable moments of life. The author here reveals how one can live without a year of no shopping. In order to support her idea, she describes two friends where one is convincing the other on how she is living without shopping. Inspired by her friend, the author also pledges for a year of no shopping. As time went on, she realizes how well…

While The Machine That Won the War by Isaac Asimov and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin are both very ironic stories, they have two different types of irony. The main theme of The Machine That Won the War is a machine, called the Multivac. Yet it is found out the machine really did not win or even help out in the war, ironically contradicting the title. The results were just being doctored by John Henderson, the main character, and his superior, Jablonsky, to make it seem the machine actually…

The three levels of prevention are primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary prevention of heart disease would be lifestyle modifications. The most important lifestyle modifications are smoking cessation, increasing physical activity to thirty minutes a day for five or more days a week, limiting the amount fat you eat in your diet, and decreasing hypertension. The recommended daily intake of fat is 25%-35% of the total daily calories (Lewis et al., 2014). It is also recommended for people to…

throughout ones life affect coronary heart disease. The study took place over a two-year period in which the study personnel surveyed 1022 different patients from 12 different outpatient clinics in the San Francisco area. Each of these patients was already admitted for having developed coronary heart disease. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate cross-sectional and 5-year associations between positive affect and health behaviors in patients with coronary heart disease. The method used…