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Heart Disease
- Donovan, R. & Cherney, K. (2015). What Do You Want to Know About Heart Disease? Retrieved from Healthline: http://www.healthline.com/health/heart-diseaseHeart disease, also called “cardiovascular disease,” is the leading cause of death in the United States. This broad term encompasses a wide range of cardiovascular problems: everything from coronary artery disease and arrhythmia (heart rhythm abnormalities) to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), heart infections, and congenital heart defects.
- Heart Disease. (2004). In D. James (Ed.), Nutrition and Well-being A-Z. New York: MacMillan Reference USA.The heart, which is about the size of a human fist, is the body's largest, strongest, and most important muscle. The heart continuously pumps blood through the body, helps regulate and prolong health, and controls the flow (circulation) of blood to the lungs, organs, muscles, and tissues in the body.
- American Heart Association. (2015). Valvular heart disease: changing concepts in disease management. Retrieved from http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/119/7/1034.fullThe purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge and future perspectives with regard to optimal prosthesis selection and clinical management after valve implantation.
- Harvard Medical Publications. (2016). Eating too much added sugar increases the risk of dying with heart disease. Retrieved from http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/eating-too-much-added-sugar-increases-the-risk-of-dying-with-heart-disease-20A sugar-laden diet may raise your risk of dying of heart disease even if you aren’t overweight. So says a major study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
- American Heart Association. (2016). Added Sugars Add to Your Risk of Dying from Heart Disease. Retrieved from http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/HealthyEating/Nutrition/Added-Sugars-Add-to-Your-Risk-of-Dying-from-Heart-Disease_UCM_4Getting too much added sugar in your diet could significantly increase your risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, according to a study published in April 2014.
- National Health Service U.K. (N.H.S.). (n.d.). Sugar intake linked to heart disease deaths. Retrieved from http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/02February/Pages/Sugar-intake-linked-to-heart-disease-deaths.aspx“Three fizzy drinks per day could triple chance of heart disease,” says The Daily Telegraph. Its headline is based on a major US study showing a link between high levels of sugar consumption and a higher relative risk of dying from cardiovascular disease (CVD).
- Cleveland Clinic. (2016). Too Much Sugar Can Stress Your Heart. Retrieved from https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2013/11/too-much-sugar-can-stress-your-heart/A recent study originally published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that large amounts of sugar damaged human heart tissue and caused disease in laboratory animals.
- Heart disease risk factors. (2006). In Harvard Reviews of Health News. Boston, MA: Harvard Health Publications.Most heart attack patients have at least one major risk factor such as high cholesterol or hypertension, according to two new studies that cast doubt on the doubters. The findings suggest that doctors should pay even more attention to screening patients for proven risk factors to help prevent heart disease, the nation's leading killer, the researchers and other heart specialists say.
- Risk factors and assessment. (2013). In Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health (pp. 791-794). Detroit: GaleKnowing the risk factors for any specific medical condition is very helpful for health workers. This information allows a health worker to understand how likely it is that a certain individual or group of people is likely to develop various health problems. The risk factors for each medical condition differ, however. They must be determined by long-term population studies for each individual disease or health problem.
- Human disease. (2016). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au/levels/middle/article/274019#234356.tocScroll down the page for information on hypertension, or high blood pressure, and coronary artery disease.
- Bushnell, C. D. (2016). Hypertension. In World Book student. Retrieved from http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar269980Hypertension is the medical term for the disease commonly called high blood pressure.
- Neal, W. A. (2016). Coronary artery disease. In World Book student. Retrieved from http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar755803Coronary artery disease, abbreviated CAD, is an unhealthy condition of the blood vessels that supply the heart.