Introduction Most people don't know very much about heart disease, and used to be one of those people. I wanted to be informed on these things that I didn't know about. I didn't want to go on not knowing about it, especially when many members of my family have been diagnosed with some type of hea...

Heart Attacks A heart attack is also known as Myocardial Infarction (M.I.). A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to a portion of the heart muscle is severely reduced or stopped. This happens when one of the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle is blocked by an obstruction. This b...

Table of Contents I. Introduction A. Attention Grabber!!! B. Purpose of the paper 1. To explain how chemistry is part of my life. II. Body A. An in depth look at heart disease. B. Causes and symptoms C. Explanation on how chemistry is used to treat and in some cases cure h...

The Heart and the Circulatory System Introduction Imagine that you are living in the year 1535, and that you don't feel well. You have had some problems with fatigue, feeling a little more tired than usual when you walked to the market and back. You tell this to your physician, and he sends y...

Cardiovascular diseases rank as America's number 1 killer. They claim the lives of 42.7 percent of the more than 2 million Americans who die each year. Cancer follows, killing 23.8 percent. All other causes of death account for 33.5 percent. Medical research continually seeks to reduce di...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure as it is typically known, is sometimes called the silent killer because a person could have it for years without even knowing it. It can be a very dangerous illness if not treated right away and properly. About fifty million Americans have high blood pressure, b...

What is high blood pressure? High blood pressure means that your heart is working harder than normal to force blood into the arteries and through the circulatory system. For an adult a blood pressure reading greater that 140 over 90 is considered as high. Normally, the pumping of the heart creates ...

Are Words Weapons? I believe that words can indeed murder the human heart. All too often I see someone put another kid down because of something he did wrong. It can be as little as tripping on the stairs and someone yelling "You clux. Man are you dumb." This can be considered a joke mos...

HYPERTENSION Hypertension is a common disorder characterized by a sustained elevation of systolic arterial pressure (top number) of 140 mm Hg or higher, or a diastolic arterial pressure (bottom number) of 90 mm Hg or greater, or both. Hypertension is divided into two categories: essential (o...

Hereditary Hemochromatosis: An Iron Overload Disease Hemochromatosis is caused by a defect in the gene called HFE, which regulates the amount of iron absorbed from food. Particularly, two mutations, called C282Y and H63D, cause the abnormal metabolism of the iron. People with the disease have inh...

Scientific name - Dirofilaria immtis Common name - dog heartworm Related parasites- Intestinal worms can cause serious problems such as bloody diarrhea and fleas can bite and cause extreme discomfort for your dog. The Life Cycle The life cycle of the heartworm begins when an infected dog, ca...

Smoking is bad for your body and your overall health. There are many side affects that can hurt and even kill your body. It also can harm your lungs and make it hard for you to breathe. When you look at the statistics I don't understand why people do smoke. Cigarette smoking is the most...

The Grange Family enjoys eating together as a family whenever they can. But an issue for them is the health problems of each of the individual family members, and being able to prepare one dish that is applicable and satisfying to each individuals needs. The goal is to prepare a budget family meal t...

Organ Transplants Nowadays medicine already good enough. When peoples got a disease, they can recovered by taking a pill and giving them an injection, even they have cancer, they can removed it by operation. It seem nowadays medicine is very good. Organ transplant is the one discovery in the medic...

Exercising today is very important to a persons health. Exercising is mainly for cardiovascular fitness. Some people do it because they just enjoy it. Exercising also gently improves your health. There are three good benefits to exercising. Health benefits sush as helping weight management...

By definition, an aneurysm is swelling of the blood vessel. They commonly occur in an artery or vein after a heart attack. An aneurysm can cause a blood clot, which can lead to major damage to the heart and brain. Identifying an aneurysm is very difficult. There are very little symptoms tha...

Second Hand Smoke Kills Some of you may say that you don't smoke and consider you selves very healthy. Well if you hang out with a lot of people who smoke, you may not be much better off then your friends that smoke. Second hand smoke is also called Environmental Tobacco Smoke ...

Potassium, which is the nineteenth element in the Periodic Table, influences the health of all living things. Whether it be used in a medicine or in certain amounts in dietary supplements, it helps all living things to improve the quality of life. Potassium has many uses, ranging from those of e...

Pseudohypertropic muscular dystrophy, or Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an inherited disease whose symptoms include quickly progressive muscle weakness. This muscle weakness begins in the legs and pelvis and slowly affects the whole body. Duchenne muscular dystrophy only affects boys (girls are on...

CPR Many lives each year are saved because someone in the area of an accident was trained in CPR and was able to keep an injured victim alive long enough for the paramedics to get to the scene. CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a technique of maintaining blood and oxygen flow through the ...

In 1932, The America Government conducted a study of a group of 399 young healthy black males who were part of an U.S. Public Health Service experiment of black men in the late stages of syphilis. The men in the experiment for the most part were illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest coun...

Being healthy means eating right and exercising. To keep a healthy balance diet a person should try to eat daily at least a portion of the six major food groups, and exercise at least three times a week to keep the body fit and reduce the chances of poor health. A wholesome diet and lifestyle can he...

Late one afternoon, a lady was driving home in the rush hour traffic. The last thing she needed was a pounding headache. While she was stopped, she dug in her purse for some aspirin to relieve her headache. She chugged it down with the Pepsi sitting by the seat. Her only worry was to relieve h...

The Cardiovascular System-Blood Pressure and The ECG Blood pressure is the force of blood distending the arterial walls. Blood pressure is measured in the Brachial artery using a sphygmomanometer, the average resting bp in a normal person is 120/80. The higher number is the systolic blood pres...

CIGARETTE SMOKING AND THE BODY Tobacco is consumed worldwide everyday by millions of people. Many people cannot prevent themselves from smoking because tobacco contains a drug called nicotine that makes them feel as if they need it in order to function normally. Nicotine is a substance found in t...