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Heart and Niacin

In five pages niacin and its benefits in terms of reducing high cholesterol levels and elevated blood pressure, along with fightin...

Firefighter Deaths

(FoxNews, 2007). Apparently, according to the study cited, firefighters experience the same poor health conditions seen in...

Lesson Plan : Seniors And Smoking

[There will be a variety of responses, like taking medication, calling and e-mailing loved ones, etc.] Short discussion about the ...

American Individualism According to Emerson, Bellah and de'Tocqueville

This 5 page paper examines various types of American individualism by analyzing literary works. The pitfalls of individualism were...

Past and Present Heart Disease Medical Technology

not advanced enough to include such contemporary developments as fluoroscopy, phonocardiography or angiocardiography by cardiac ca...

Heart Disease and the Role of Cholesterol

cholesterol has been believed to be a correlate in heart disease for several decades. In a February 1990 "American Family Physici...

Cardiomyopathy

number of heart attacks is that heart disease is associated with the wide scale accumulation of gunk in the walls of the arteries ...

Overview of Hyperlipidemia Condition

In nine pages this paper presents an overview of the condition known as hyperlipidemia in a consideration of its diagnosis, treatm...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

Nutrition and Heart Disease

to reduce heart disease by many medical and nutritional practitioners for the past 50 years is the very diet that causes it!" He ...

Physical Effects of Smoking

is interesting to note that the increase of smoking in America has steadily correlated with the increasing incidence of lung cance...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

An Examination of a Tool for Aggregate Assessment

Erie, Pennsylvania (Minnis, 2002). As is the case here, the aggregate for which this tool was developed is that of persons over t...

Coney Island and Heart Disease Community Proposal

in the general area, but that the population immediately surrounding the church is rather homogeneous. Nearly 29 percent of Coney...

The Field of Nursing and Issues of Aggregate Introduction and Diagnoses in Health Promotion

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

Examination of Congestive Heart Failure

The link between behavioral components and risk factors has been a major element in the focus on nursing paradigms and treatment p...

Powerlessness and Coronary Heart Disease, A Concept Analysis

perception of powerlessness is a condition that can affects virtually all individuals at some point in their lives (Dryer, 2006). ...

Kidney Failure and Treatment

chronic disease. A medical dictionary, available online at http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com, indicates that the ter...

Healthy People 2020

who have these risks. They are: inactivity, 39.5 percent; obesity, 33.9 percent; high blood pressure, 20.5 percent; cigarette smok...

An Article Review on Coronary Artery Disease

greater activity levels than those with PTCA (r=0.306, p = 0.014). * Perceived benefits had a high positive correlation with barri...

High Blood Presssure and Heart Disease

has been linked to risk for hyperreactive responses to stressors (Lehman et al., 2009). Parent education and training might mitiga...

Congenital Heart Disease and Blood Disorders

this disease impacts a much larger segment of the population than one might suspect. Congenital heart defects occur in approximat...

Reevaluation of Causes of Heart Disease

In six pages this paper considers heart disease in terms of the investigation into its root causes and includes the identification...

Black Religion as Formed by Racism

individuals were members of St. Georges Methodist Episcopal Church but, because of the fact they were African American, found them...

Vitamin C, oxidative stress and heart disease

This research paper pertains to vitamin C and its relationship to oxidative stress and the role of oxidative stress in heart disea...

African Culture and Ideology and Its Impact Upon African Americans Past and Present

In this paper consisting of six pages the 'Africanness' thread that continues to link contemporary African Americans to their past...

African and African American Heritage by Oscar Brown Jr.

This paper examines this work, also referred to as Drum Street, by Oscar Brown Jr. There are no other sources listed....

Africans and Africa in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

that Africa has on the Europeans in the story. His argument, therefore, it that imperialism is wrong, not so much because of what ...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

Cultural Responses to the Plague and Tuberculosis

the conditions of the poor were supposed to be upgraded by industrial innovations; but, on the other hand, company waste and inade...