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the character’s situation and decide what we would do, learning more about ourselves. The message of this book is that peer pressure can lead to a path of destruction from the choices that you made, which will change your life forever making you someone you're not, close to a point of no return. Peer pressure is relevant because we see kids in society influenced by peer pressure who end up making the wrong decisions that go against morals, values,…

blood pressure, the volume of blood, and the fluid and electrolyte balance in the body. Angiotensin II controls vasoconstriction in the circulatory system, which increases blood pressure and can cause hypertension (Burchum and Rosenthal, 2016,p.471-473). Aldosterone is what controls the fluid and electrolyte balance in the body. It also is released from the adrenal cortex and activates retention of sodium, which increases the fluid volume, which consequently increases the blood pressure…

Rising sea levels are increasing the number of floods around the world. Moreover, the occurrence of droughts and desertification in large areas on Earth are having devastating consequences for human kind. All of these issues will become more difficult to manage if we do not act soon. This phenomena is known as global warming and climate change. Global warming is the increase in temperature throughout the world. It is caused by the increasing amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases in…

Hypertension is an asymptomatic vascular disorder that displays an increased systolic (>120mm/Hg) or diastolic (>80mm/Hg) pressure. The etiology of the disorder is unknown, and is therefore known as an idiopathic disorder but a variety of factors do play a role in the pathogenesis of the disorder such as coarctation of the aorta, salt sensitivity, renal abnormalities, hormonal disorders and neurological malfunctions. Therefore, the manifestation of the disorder is a complex interaction…

Hypertension, sometimes known as “Silent Killer” is America’s freighting combative illness we struggle to regulate. Due too many health risk factors, many people are sometimes unaware of hypertension until suffering from severe damaging effects. High blood pressure is a growing problem in today’s life controlling it is the key priority. According to statistics approximately 50 million lives in the United States are affected by hypertension and approximately 1 billion worldwide. In this paper,…

Hypertension- high blood pressure means that the systolic blood pressure is consistently over 140 (represent the pressure generate when the heat beat) and the diastolic blood pressure is consistently over 90 (represent the pressure in the vessels when the heart is at rest). Pre-hypertension will eventually lead to hypertension, those with a systolic pressure between 120 and 139, and a diastolic between 80 and 89 on multiple readings (“Hypertension,” n.d. ). This is a condition in which the force…

experiment, we are testing the affects sodium has on our blood pressure. If increased amounts of sodium are added to plain spaghetti noodles, will that increase blood pressure? If 7 grams of sodium is introduced to plain noodles and consumed, then the person 's systolic and diastolic reading will increase dramatically, when blood pressure is a function of sodium. This is our hypothesis. We predict that when we take the blood pressure of our test subjects after eating the noodles with 7 grams of…

many of these risk factors. This study is going to focus particularly on hypertension, and how dark chocolate can decrease blood pressure. Dark chocolate possesses flavonoids, which is a subclass of polyphenols. This molecule is composed of two aromatic rings bound by an oxygenated heterocycle…

Introduction: Blood pressure is controlled by the autonomic nervous system and is the pressure of the circulating blood being exerted upon the arterial walls of the blood vessels. Blood pressure is determined by ones cardiac output, blood volume, and peripheral resistance. Blood pressure is expressed by a systolic pressure and diastolic pressure and is measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg). Systolic pressure is the maximum pressure during ventricular contraction of the left ventricle while…

In April of 2011, a supercell caused 363 tornadoes to touch down in several states within a four day period. On April 27th alone, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed over 200 tornadoes touched down that ranked between F-0 and F-6 on the Fujita scale. This record breaking phenomenon resulted in the deaths of 348 people with damages estimating over $11 billion dollars. Due to the magnitude of the outbreak, National Weather Services assigned several teams to not only…