The Framingham Heart Study

Have you ever been in a bad situation but tried to make the best out of it? Even when someone tells you everything will be fine just keep a positive mind. The same can be said about these two short stories. In “The Hitchhiker” the main character Ronald Adams is driving to California, and is seeing this strange man follow him around while he is driving. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” The old man has the narrator after him trying to end the old man’s eye forever.

A four-year-old named Mia Gonzalez spent the first 3½ years of her life missing out of everything. She missed out of stuff like day-care and dance classes cause she keep getting colds and pneumonia. Every time she went outside to play she got easily winded and had to take multiple asthma treatments and medication just to help keep her breathing. After ten hospitals stays the doctors finally realized that she had a malformation in her heart aorta which is the vessel that pumps blood to the heart. She did need an operation that would need to close off the part of her heart that was putting pressure on her windpipe and making it hard to swallow, breath, and get rid of the mucus that drains in the back of her throat when she got a cold.

Ryan Hogan OT-525 9-21-15 While taking the health risk assessment I knew right from the start that some of the information would be off. The assessment asked about things such as blood pressure and cholesterol, and I do not know these measures right of the top of my head. While looking at the results, it stated that I am at risk of dying within the next 10 years. When comparing my risk percentages to the average 27 year old male, I did very well and was average compared to the others. However one factor that I scored above average on was the chance of a heart attack.

According to the text, Foucus on Health by Dale Hahn , there are multipples risk factors can be devolping cardiovascular disesase. First would be tabacco smoking, which is a risk factors with sudden cardiac death. Smokers have four times higher chance fromdying from sudden cardiac arrest as nonsomkers do. Then there is physical inactivity as a risk factor to cardiovascular diseases. Having consistent aerobatic exerices helps strengthen heart muslces, matining blood flow and improving the vascular system transfer blood and oxygen to different parts of the body.

The article that stood out to me was “Its Your Move” by Timothy Church. It gave valuable information on how regular exercise in adults can lead to a multitude of positive effects on the body both physically and mentally. Three main points of the article were exercise could reduce the risk of disabilities as we age, regular exercise can reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease and that everyone has the time for exercise. When you think of aging you often associate it with weakness. In every sport there is an old woman or man who is participating in that sport and excelling in it.

Physical inactivity is a high risk factor for many chronic diseases. Yet, a large percentage of women of all ages remain less physically inactive in comparison to men. In addition to that, their ability and motivation to exercise decreases with age. In fact, many women reported other barriers related to gender, financial, and social support.

The existence of cardiomyopathy was first proposed by Rubler et al, In 1974 Framingham study showed that heart failure was more common in diabetes due to diabetes cardiomyopathy.58,59 The Framingham heart study reveals a marked in congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction in diabetes patients.60 Diastole is that phase of the of the cardiac cycle when the heart is not contracting to propel blood out (systole) to the body, brain and lungs but instead is relaxing and filling with incoming blood that is being return from body through inferior vena cava from lungs through the pulmonary veins and the through superior vena cava. Diastole begins with aortic valve closure and ends with mitral valve closure. Diastole

Other heart disease risk factors include gender, age, and weight. The patient is female which is conducive to heart disease. In women, heart disease presents with symptoms that are not obvious (Shirato & Swan, 2010). For this reason, heart disease a differential diagnoses for the patient.

For the older individual, exercise is an essential element in healthful aging. Research reveals exercise not only makes us (humans) live longer, but we also live a greater quality of life as we age. Stated in the text, "regular exercise and physical activity improve health in a variety of ways [such as] a reduction in heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, colon cancer, depression, anxiety, excess weight, falling, bone thinning, muscle wasting, and joint pain". Everything in the body is positively affected by exercise and can be of a great advantage for the older adult 's well-being.

1. After taking the heart disease risk assessment, I was pleasantly surprised to find that my assessed risk was “very much below average”. I have always thought of my lifestyle as above average in terms of health, and was glad to have this assessment reaffirm that. The only two improvements suggested were to eat more fish and more vegetable oil (which surprised, because I had thought that oils were to be avoided if possible). For the diabetes risk assessment, my assessment results were the same, “very much below average”.

Furthermore, these studies provided important information about several other nutrients such as antioxidants, folate, fiber, and overall dietary patterns. Some of the most important information that has come from these studies is the information pertaining to an individual’s risk of cardiovascular disease due to diet and lifestyle factors. According to Willett (2015), cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among all Americans despite an overall decline in mortality in recent years (p.6). Decades worth of research has allowed healthcare professionals to encourage prevention and promote awareness about the diet and lifestyle factors that research has linked to an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases. This research has also helped to improve prevention, early detection and

Inherited Heart Disease According to the Center for Disease Control, “ Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women.” Many people have a family history that affects the progression of their disease. This disease is hereditary, meaning that it can pass from parent to child. Many things can affect a person 's risk for developing heart disease, and genetics is only one of them.

Smoking and unhealthy diet are the some of the risk factors that contribute to disease and therefore need intervention and support to prevent it from happening. The American Heart Association (AHA) (2016) suggest that changing your lifestyle and dietary habits help to prevent cardiovascular diseases. In relation to the patient; smoking creates the build-up of fat in the arteries which is a high risk factor for several types of disease which can lead to heart attacks and contribute to the number of deaths occurring (AHA,

Atherosclerosis can manifest to Cardiovascular Disorders (CVD) which are common in Western and urban populations. It is important to note that CVD is becoming one of the top causes of death globally. To understand the prevalence and incidence of atherosclerosis, we must take into account factors such as demographics as well as cultural and/or ethnic influences. Certain groups or societies are more prone to atherosclerosis. For instance, atherosclerosis is more prevalent within the Aboriginal populations in Canada because of reported high rates of smoking, diabetes, obesity, hypertension observed amongst that group.

Other societies face more psychosocial factors that promote poor lifestyle choices and are associated with the higher rates of atherosclerosis in that group. This can support the fact the high numbers of atherosclerosis in Western and urban populations experience due to the stress at work or home and depression. The high rates of mortality and morbidity by atherosclerosis have slowly minimized due to the more recent developments of medication and surgery. There are medications for moderate atherosclerosis including heparin and T-PA.