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This research paper/essay concerns a home visit with an older woman suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF, hypertension and...

This research paper, and the fourteen slide PowerPoint presentation with which it is associated, khhbpoverw.ppt, offer an overvie...

This paper describes hypertension and the threat it constitutes for African Americans. The writer then describes a project that pe...

This research paper pertains to a 40-year-old African American male who has hypertension. Ten pages in length, eight sources are c...

a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...

This research paper discusses the recommendations made by the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detect...

This research paper is a literature review of hypertension, which explores the incidence, causality, morbidity and mortality of th...

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

p. 12). Additionally, many blacks believe the principal cause of hypertension to be stress, "resulting from being black, experienc...

the same view of chronic illness or its treatment than white patients might have. The Situation Family physician David Sat...

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

HSNI was that it was difficult for individuals to do at home, and many required treatment in a doctors office. As a result, instr...

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...

defined as a systolic blood pressure of greater than or equal to 140 mm/Hg) was linked most commonly to individuals whoa re overwe...

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

(CNY, 2007). Talk to an informant; problems and strengths : Naturally this writer/tutor was not in a position to find an inform...

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

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

and spans a 12-year period (2004). He discovered that people who claimed to be physically active--even on occasion--were found to...

history of hypertension. My desired state of health is that which includes normal blood pressure readings on a regular basi...

tightening of blood vessels. While Enalapril is effective in its application, there are a number of concerns with which the healt...

professional must carefully evaluate this patient using all that is known about each of these conditions. Pain such as that being...

In the standardized approach to treating persistent pulmonary hypertension in infants small amounts of nitric oxide gas are added ...

while in utero, which reduces the nephron number and resets the pressure-natriuresis curve rightward (Forrester, 2004). Since Afri...

Erthroxylon coca. The active ingredient was first isolated by Westerners by a man named Albert Niemann in 1860. The drug soon beca...

which would have put him at greater risk for dying of heart disease, regardless of his genetic makeup. Smoking is considered the ...

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

is the number one killer in the United States (Sullivan and Sullivan, 1997). When death does not occur, coronary disease has nume...

In twenty pages this paper considers the effects of Toprol XL Metoprolol or Lopressor drugs for the treatment of hypertension for ...