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Living with Illness ~ Heart Disease

Living with Illness ~ Heart Disease

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Discover the Keys to Managing Your Health

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Acute and Chronic illnesses and injury can adversely affect your physical, emotional, relational and spiritual well being. Taking control over your life is vital to gaining well being and living life to the fullest. With good preventive care, early intervention, and the many treatment options available, management of many illnesses can be successful and provide individuals with a quality of life that allows for continued living with dignity

shutterstock_54322333Heart Disease. Heart disease is a broad term used to describe a range of diseases that affect your heart. The various diseases that fall under the umbrella of heart disease include diseases of your blood vessels, such as coronary artery disease; heart rhythm problems (arrhythmias); heart infections; and heart defects you’re born with (congenital heart defects).

The term “heart disease” is often used interchangeably with “cardiovascular disease.” Cardiovascular disease generally refers to conditions that involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attack, chest pain (angina) or stroke. Other heart conditions, such as infections and conditions that affect your heart’s muscle, valves or beating rhythm, also are considered forms of heart disease.

shutterstock_50068801Many forms of heart disease can be prevented or treated with healthy lifestyle choices.

Retrieved from: Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-disease/DS01120

The Risk Factors — and How You Can Reduce Yours
Major risk factors for cardiovascular disease include cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and/or triglycerides, diabetes mellitus, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and poor nutrition. Prevention and treatment centers around these risk factors — and these approaches will help you lower risk for many other types of illness, as well as helping you feel great and have more energy overall.

Source: Retrieved from: http://life.gaiam.com/article/top-10-ways-reduce-your-risk-heart-disease

 

Getting to the “Heart” of Health Care Costs–Heart Failure and Medicare Costs

Dr. Barbara Riegel
Professor and Edith Clemmer Steinbright Chair of Gerontology
Director, Biobehavioral Research Center
Chair, Graduate Group in Nursing
University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing. Philadelphia, PA

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Oral Anticoagulants in Atrial Fibrillation: How to Weigh in on Which Drug May Work Best for You

Joseph D. Jackson, PhD
Program Director, Applied Health Economics and Outcomes Research, and Associate Professor
Jefferson School of Population Health
Philadelphia., Pa

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