Tag: Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular disease is a heart condition which involved the narrowing or blocked blood vessels that can lead to myocardial infarction, angina, or stroke. Other examples of cardiovascular diseases include atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease, carotid artery disease, and arrythmias.
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Assessment and Observation of the Cardiovascular System Lecture
Nursing Lectures
The cardiovascular system is one of the body's fundamental life-sustaining systems; therefore, it is essential that nurses......
Last modified: 19th Oct 2021
Respiratory and Cardiovascular Emergencies Lecture
Nursing Lectures
Respiratory, cardiovascular and neurologic conditions are the most common types of medical emergencies encountered in emergency care...
Last modified: 19th Oct 2021
Palliative Care for Cardiac and Respiratory Disease Lecture
Nursing Lectures
Cardiac and respiratory diseases are among the most common reasons people in the United Kingdom (UK) will be admitted to palliative......
Last modified: 19th Oct 2021
Increasing Physical Activity to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
Nursing Essays
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a significant public health issue; it constitutes the major cause of death and disability globally.1 The burden of this disease is significantly associated with societal concern....
Last modified: 25th Jun 2021
Literature Review on Improving Cardiovascular Health With Statins
Nursing Literature Reviews
This literature review aims at examining how treating patients with no history of cardiovascular disease or heart disease with statins can help reduce complications or death. ...
Last modified: 19th Apr 2021
Is Vitamin Supplementation Beneficial with Regards to Cardiovascular Disease?
Nursing Literature Reviews
Cardiovascular diseases are the number one killer of humans worldwide according to the World Health Organization’s Statistics. Cardiovascular diseases are defined as diseases ...
Last modified: 23rd Dec 2020
Comparison of Lifestyle and Infectious Disease on Impacts to Human Health
Nursing Essays
In Australia, increasing living standards have led to a significant reduction in the rates of infectious diseases. The benefits of abundant resources have also led to a high prevalence of preventable diseases arising from lifestyle patterns....
Last modified: 6th Oct 2020
Statin Therapy for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Nursing Essays
Abstract Many people in the United States die each year from heart disease. An accumulation of plaque (fatty deposits) in arterial walls can reduce blood flow to the heart, which increases the risk fo...
Last modified: 16th Jun 2020
Community Needs Assessment for Cardiovascular Disease
Nursing Assignments
Environmental Assessment The target population for this community needs assessment is those who have cardiovascular disease and qualify for cardiac rehabilitation. In order for a patient to receive th...
Last modified: 15th Jun 2020
Health Issues in New Zealand: Cancer, Suicide and Cardiovascular Disease
Nursing Assignments
TASK-1.1/1.2 Identify three health issues in New Zealand 1. Cancer 2. Suicide 3. Cardiovascular disease Cancer Cancer is a group of disease involving abn...
Last modified: 20th May 2020
Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Patient Case Study
Nursing Case Studies
Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Patient Case Study The primary focus of this paper is to discuss and perform an in-depth analysis of several cardiac risk factors exhibited by a 55-year-old patient inte...
Last modified: 19th May 2020
Cardiovascular Disease in African American Women
Nursing Essays
According to Braun et al (2016), cardiovascular disease is considered to be one of the largest contributors with the increase of mortality and morbidity rates in African American women. Acc...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Dealing with the increasing average age
Nursing Questions
Question How do we effectively deal with the increasing average age? Answer The UK’s progressive health care policy has led to a high quality of life for citizens of the member states over the past ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Examining Health Promotion And Nutritional Education Combat Ailments Nursing Essay
Nursing Essays
The prevalence of nutrition related ailments like obesity and cardiovascular disease has increased among health care consumers for almost a decade (Park et al., 2010). Most of these diseases normally ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Effects Of Cardiac Rehabilitation On Cardiovascular Disease
Nursing Essays
Purpose: Cardiac rehabilitation aims to improve quality of life and reduce mortality of cardiovascular disease. In order to obtain this cardiac rehabilitation programmes aim to help patients make the ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Risk Behaviours of Cardiovascular Diseases Study
Nursing Essays
Title of the Study To identify the prevalence of ineffective physical activity and unhealthy dietary pattern among MSc Nursing students; could lead to cardiovascular diseases. Significance of the Res...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Comparison of Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Nursing Essays
Does a GLP1 agonist, Liraglutide, or a SGLT inhibitor, Empagliflozin, have a lower risk of cardiovascular events and mortality in a type 2 diabetics with established atherosclerotic cardiovascul...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Why Aspirin is Not Beneficial in Non-Diabetic Patients
Nursing Essays
Understanding the serious threat that cardiovascular disease poses and the various risk factors for developing this disease is fundamental to a patient’s health. Risks for cardiovascular diseas...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Effects of Particulate Matter Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Disease In San Bernardino County, California
Nursing Essays
Abstract Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become the greatest influence over human mortality rates. Numerous studies have shown that this may be in strong part to various forms of ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Controlling Cardiovascular Disease Through Diet And Exercise Health And Social Care Essay
Nursing Essays
Cardiovascular disease is a debilitating disease that is wide spread throughout the United States. This disease has been identified by Healthy People as one of their 2020 topics and objectives to foc...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Cardiovascular Disease Among Urban Malaysians Health And Social Care Essay
Nursing Essays
Results from INTERHEART global case-control study (Yusuf et al. 2004, Anand et al. 2008) concluded that the following nine potentially modifiable risk factors account for over 90% of the risk of an ac...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Hypertension And Blood Pressure
Nursing Essays
Hypertension is a common and major cause of stroke and other cardiovascular disease. There are many causes of hypertension, including defined hormonal and genetic syndromes, renal disease and multifac...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Health Promotion Intervention Plan On Cardiovascular Disease
Nursing Essays
Planning is defined as a step by step movement from the beginning till the end of a programme (Naidoo and Wills, 2009).It was also clearly stated by Tones and Green (2005) as an outline of different p...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Cardiovascular Disease
Nursing Essays
Cardiovascular Disease Introduction This paper utilizes qualitative data drawn from a series of focus group discussions with patients living with coronary heart disease which explored their und...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Types of Cardiovascular Disease
Nursing Essays
Jeanette Mullen Abstract Cardiovascular disease (CVD) affects many people throughout their lives, there are some that are living with the disease and don’t even know it because they don’...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
