Monday, September 8, 2008

what is the pathophysiology of pneumonia and rheumatic heart disease? Please help me with my homework

what is the pathophysiology of pneumonia and rheumatic heart disease? Please help me with my homework?
Who could give me the pathophysiology of pneumonia and Rheumatoid Heart Disease? The diagram and the explanation. Thank you very much. Pls help
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Look in your textbook

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

What, other than high cholesterol, genetics, and high blood pressure cause heart disease

What, other than high cholesterol, genetics, and high blood pressure cause heart disease?
As my question states, is there more than just high cholesterol, genetics, and high blood pressure involved with heart disease? Are there other key components, or are these not even things that cause it? Thanks!
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life style.
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High blood pressure causes atherosclerosis in coronary blood vessels, which result is Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction. Thus, a heart condition and not a heart disease. The same is true for high cholesterol, which builds up in the walls of arteries, making the risk for a heart attack be higher or becoming a risk factor for a heart disease. Genetics is true to cause heart disease and is commonly referred to as Cogential Heart Disease or Defect. Overall, other reasons for a heart disease can be smoking, drinking alcohol, physical abnormalities, certain viruses that may cause Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) & makes the heart prone to disease, certain bacteria are other factors & may result in Rheumatic Heart Disease, and etc. Good Luck

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Monday, September 1, 2008

why do Caucasians have the highest number of deaths due to heart disease

why do Caucasians have the highest number of deaths due to heart disease?
Does anyone know why whites are more susceptible to die from heart disease compared to other races? Is it because of eating behavior, genes, or lifestyle habits?
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Because America is a really obese state; I'd blame the junk food. Specially Mcdonald's.
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i think it could be all three? eating behaviours because caucasians today have a way less healthier diet than what used to be (i.e mcdonalds, burger king, especiallly kfc that sh*t is just a bucket of heart disease) and as the foods get even more unhealthier, so does our diet. Genes because im not completely sure of this but some heart diseases could be hereditary. Lifestyles habits.....i dont know, because i said so.
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DNA variant puts Caucasians at higher risk for heart disease, see http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article756035.ece

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