Heart disease, Risk factors, Australia, Community, PreventionThis research aimed to determine Australian adults' perceptions of risk factors for heart disease, self-reported behaviours relating to modifiable risk factors, and knowledge of leading causes of death. This study reports on HeartWatch survey ...
In particular, diet and exercise are things that really need to be encouraged in terms of preventing the development of heart disease and also modifying the outcome once people actually have developed heart disease. It's important for people to know what the risk factors are and what to do ab...
Pratum SoiwongJohn Wiley And Sons Australia, LtdNursing & Health SciencesPothiban, L. Risk factor prevalence, risk status, and perceived risk for coronary heart disease among Thai elderly. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. 1993....
Most patients with a heart attack have underlying atherosclerosis (“hardening of the arteries”) in the heart, called coronary artery disease. Around the time of a heart attack (if not before), doctors and patients should focus on mitigating risk factors for future heart attacks and other cardi...
Heart disease includes many different disorders. This lesson will go over the major risk factors for heart disease and some of the most important early signs of it. What Is Heart Disease? If you find yourself short of breath it could be due to a few different reasons. Maybe you just ran...
Heart disease, any disorder of the heart. Examples include coronary heart disease, congenital heart disease, and pulmonary heart disease, as well as rheumatic heart disease (see rheumatic fever), hypertension, inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditi
Coronary heart disease, disease characterized by an inadequate supply of oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle (myocardium) because of narrowing or blocking of a coronary artery by fatty plaques (see atherosclerosis). If the oxygen depletion is extreme,
Heart disease risk factors that you can control revolve around lifestyle. These include: Smoking Unhealthycholesterolnumbers (see below) Uncontrolled high blood pressure Physical inactivity Obesity(having a BMI greater than 25) Uncontrolled diabetes ...
Parental health literacy and education are prognostic factors of health outcomes in children with complex congenital disease [25]. We provide evidence that one way in which EI may impact outcomes involves greater likelihood of reduced rates of cardiology follow-up. Surprisingly, we did not find a ...
Tom Marwick, the director of the institute, said there was an incorrect perception in Australia that cardiovascular disease was under control. "The report is a wake up call... there is a new face of heart disease," Marwick said. Marwick said that cases of irregular heartbeat, which increase...