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    There are many diseases around the world and they come in different shapes and sizes. From the common cold to cancer the can be deadly or just give you the sniffles. There are many diseases to talk about but today we’re going to talk about cardiovascular disease (heart failure). Cardiovascular Disease is where your body fails to pump blood into your heart. Cardiovascular disease is caused by one of the three, 1.Age; the older you get the more risk that you develop cardiovascular disease. 2. Gender

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    Cardiovascular disease is the top killer of women and men in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). It is predicted by the CDC that an American will have a severe cardiac event in about every 25 seconds. By reducing or eliminating controllable risk factors, one “could prevent or postpone substantially more deaths from CHD” (Capewell et al., 2010, p. 120). Heart disease, which researchers may refer to as coronary artery disease (CAD), CHD, or cardiovascular disease

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    Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women and has an average of 610,000 casualties in the United States every year. As adults, we tend to lead a very demanding lifestyle. Inside our home, the office, events for the holidays, and perhaps even school, we have a never-ending to do list that makes up the majority of our day. But we also have a responsibility to ourselves, but sometimes that doesn’t quite make the priority cutoff. From what I’ve heard, I’m supposed to

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    Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Although the term cardiovascular disease refers to a disorder of the cardiovascular system, it is usually associated with atherosclerosis, also known as arterial disease. It is considered the leading cause of deaths in the world, taking 17.1 million lives a year. There are only a few factors that are non-modifiable, these being the persons age, gender, family history and their race and ethnicity. Although there are non-modifiable risk factors, there are multiple

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    identified cardiovascular disease as the common health issue among Maori. The essay explores the details of CVD and relevant demographics. The importance of treaty of Waitangi in this contest and the historical factors relevant to CVD are explained. Finally, identified a significant health policy related to CVD and explained one community health service related to the identified health strategy. CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is considered as the most common disease condition

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    Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in men and women. Approximately 47% of Americans have one of the three leading factors of heart disease which are high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking (Heart Disease Facts, 2015). Although high cholesterol is not a modifiable risk, high blood pressure and smoking as well as being overweight, obese, having a poor diet, physical inactivity and excessive alcohol use are modifiable. The consequences of obesity with secondary diabetes

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    Cohort Follow-up Studies: Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Demetrius Beauford Strayer University Professor Davis HAS 535 Managerial Epidemiology August 15, 2014   Introduction Cardiovascular disease is the disease that influences the veins which incorporate veins, corridors and vessels and the heart, overall this framework is known as the cardiovascular system. This disease is confounded for the coronary illness and comprises of plentiful issues joined with a natural methodology known as atherosclerosis;

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    Heart Disease Heart disease is many different conditions that can affect your heart in many different ways. Some of these conditions include blood vessel diseases such as coronary artery disease, heart arrhythmias. One other condition would be a heart defect you may have been born with such as congenital heart defect. Another name people often use to describe heart disease is cardiovascular disease. This term is about narrowed or blocked blood vessels. Symptoms for heart disease depend on what

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    1. Innovation to improve the mortality and morbidity of cardiovascular disease in developing countries may involve new surgical procedures, new implants and pacemakers, coronary artery bypasses, surgical treatments for Atrial fibrillation, repair of congenital heart defects, heart transplants, aortic arteries repair, replacement or repair of heart valves, and aneurysm repair (Hsieh, Chang, Lee, Chen, & Chan, 2012). Moreover, the innovation involves the integration of computer charting and data collection

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    Heart Disease: An Examination Heart or cardiovascular disease is an umbrella term utilized for various diseases that can affect one's heart. As with any disease, there are certain factors that can exacerbate the onset and continuation of this disease. For this reason, the paper below will analyze heart disease in detail and describe the specific population that is prone to being affected by this disease, as well as what this population can do to help alleviate the harmful effects of heart disease

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