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Services and Controlling High Blood Pressure If your loved one has high blood pressure, you know how dangerous it can be. The good news is that there are ways to control high blood pressure, and home health care services can help. While there are medications that are effective in treating high blood pressure, according to Mayo Clinic, the most important aspect in controlling high blood pressure is a person lifestyle. A person who controls their lifestyle can control their blood pressure. The first

Blood-borne viral infections can be very dangerous, even deadly, if contacted. One of these viral infections is known as hepatitis. Hepatitis, or simply "hep," is a disease caused by the inflation of the liver due to the infection of a virus. Today's medical technology has helped us identify five different types of hepatitis, though there may be more. The most common types are Hepatitis A, B, and C. Hepatitis A is both the least common and the least dangerous of these three forms. In fact, most

are organs that filter blood and produce urine. The ureters. These are tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder. The bladder. This is the sac that holds urine until it passes out of the body. The urethra. This is the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body. Urinary obstruction can put pressure on the kidneys, leading to kidney infection or kidney damage. CAUSES Causes include: Birth defects. Kidney stones. Blood clots. Scar tissue

faster and blood vessels constrict (Fahey, 2015).  Stress is risk factor because of the pressure it puts the body under, this can cause the chronic high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels. The elevation of these components are risk factors for heart disease and stroke (Bryg, 2008). Unmanaged stress can also lead to an over abundance of the stress hormones; adrenaline and cortisol. Blood flow is affected by stress which indefinitely is a risk for stroke and heart disease. The blood to the heart

Unfolding Case Study Part Four Southern New Hampshire University Daneen Breitenbach Nursing 601 Unfolding Case Study Part Four Ms. Sunshine recently had a myocardial infarction, with 90% of her one main artery occluded. She is a 54-year-old African American female who decided to travel from Denver to Boston to visit her son and new grandson. Prior to leaving Denver, Ms. Sunshine has been experiencing chest discomfort, dyspnea, fatigue, anxiety, and flu like symptoms. Her son Mitchell

Through his birth, life, and death depicted within the New Testament, Jesus Christ serves as the symbolic sacrificial Lamb of God in which he not only fulfilled the Old Testament sacrificial system through his demise, but also reversed its precedence as Jesus became “before all things, and in Him all things

Alexa Do Mr. Bunic Human Physiology Honors, Period 1 10 September 2017 Heart Anatomy and Blood Pressure The cardiovascular system is an organ system that distributes nutrients and oxygen to the body’s cells. The heart is an essential organ that pumps blood throughout the body. The cardiac cycle, the pressure of the blood, and the heart rate all play into how the heart is so significant to the cardiovascular system. This illustration depicts the left ventricle, right ventricle, tricuspid valve, the

and gives rise to a number of new species that all occupy different habitats and show characteristics that assist in survival and reproduction under their natural selection pressures (Kinear, J.F. 2000). Variations in these essential survival

rehabilitation as his best interest post -acute stage. Patients with C-6 injuries typically have some wrist control but no hand function. Other effects may include: bowel and bladder dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, difficulty regulating heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, and body temperature, spasticity, neuropathic pain, muscle atrophy, osteoporosis, gall bladder and renal stones. While their lives will definitely be different than they were before the injury, with the correct intervention and

Chapter I 1- GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1-1 Overview of human blood groups The term blood group is usually restricted to blood cell surface antigens, and generally to red cell surface antigens. These antigens are molecules present on the red blood cells membrane, which can trigger an immune response if they are foreign to the body. Landsteiner and his colleagues (1, 2), discovered the first blood group system (ABO) in 1901, they observed that plasma from some individuals agglutinated the red cells