Monday, April 20, 2009

Population affected by coronary heart disease

Population affected by coronary heart disease?
How many people die from coronary artery disease each year? I know it's the no. 1 killer of women and the leading cause of death, but I'd like a number. =)
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16 million people in the US have coronary heart disease . More than 500,000 people in the US die from coronary heart disease each year. In Britain it it responsible for 1 in 4 deaths. More than half a million WOMEN die of cardiovascular diseases each year, there are about 60,000 deaths from breast cancer annually, compared to 500,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease. About 2,400 to 2,600 people die every day of cardiovascular disease. These are just some of the figures I found. Click these links for more info: http://www.texasheartinstitute.org/HIC/Topics/HSmart/riskfact.cfm http://www.eons.com/body/feature/healthcorner/cardio-health/heart-disease-in-women/7637 http://www.answers.com/topic/coronary-heart-disease?cat=health http://www.optimal-heart-health.com/coronaryheartdisease.html

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

heart disease can be caused by genetics and by environmental factors explain what this statement means

heart disease can be caused by genetics and by environmental factors explain what this statement means?
what does this statement mean?
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Genetics simply mean its in your Genes aka it runs in the family. Environmental factor means the everyday things such as medication, polluted air, salty foods that raise your blood pressure, smoking, and dehydration due to heat. MUAH
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The "genetic cause" is a family tendency towards heart disease. All it means is that someone might have a higher risk of heart disease because one or both parents, or their parents, or their grand parents had heart disease and the risk is carried through to the younger generations. Environmental factors include air pollution, second hand cigarette smoke, dust from factories carried in the air and then breathed in; things like that.
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* Family history of coronary artery disease (genetic or hereditary factors) * Smoking * Rheumatic fever * Diabetes * hypertension * Chronic kidney disease * Unhealthy cholesterol levels, especially high LDL ("bad") cholesterol and low HDL ("good") cholesterol * Stress and strains. * Sedentary occupation and lack of exercise.
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Your homework is NOT our homework and you will gain little educational advantage from cutting and pasting answers from those that merely cut and past themselves.
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also cocaine and steroids can cause this

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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Imagine you have a million dollars to donate to heart disease research

Imagine you have a million dollars to donate to heart disease research.?
would u rather fund a research team that's working to prevent human heart transplant rejection ,or a team that's developing artificial human hearts?
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Artificial. Even if you keep the human heart transplant operating it will eventually wear out. An artificial heart wouldn't.
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The second one. Some day the artificial ones may even be an improvement over the real ones.
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A team that is developing artificial hearts.
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i would prefer to fund a research team that is working to prevent heart transplant rejection. because i had a heart transplant almost 2 years ago and i take at least 30 tablets a day and i am only 22 years old. i find that being able to prevent rejection is more of a successful outcome because an artificial heart with still have complications

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