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Diet and High Blood Pressure Among African Canadians

while in utero, which reduces the nephron number and resets the pressure-natriuresis curve rightward (Forrester, 2004). Since Afri...

Newborns and Nitric Oxide Pulmonary Therapy

In the standardized approach to treating persistent pulmonary hypertension in infants small amounts of nitric oxide gas are added ...

Plan for Blood Pressure Reduction

history of hypertension. My desired state of health is that which includes normal blood pressure readings on a regular basi...

Fitness and Its Hypertension Benefits

and spans a 12-year period (2004). He discovered that people who claimed to be physically active--even on occasion--were found to...

Hypertension in African American Populations

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

E-Health and Women's Hypertension

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

Four Research Articles on Health Issues

HSNI was that it was difficult for individuals to do at home, and many required treatment in a doctors office. As a result, instr...

Nursing Care for Hypertension

defined as a systolic blood pressure of greater than or equal to 140 mm/Hg) was linked most commonly to individuals whoa re overwe...

Risk and Hypertension, Pancreatic Cancer

and total energy intake"), the researchers determined that lycopene, which was provided primarily from tomatoes, could be associat...

Pharmacological Approaches to Treating Hypertension

This cost combines with the severe physiological impacts of the disease to emphasize the point that treatment should be as efficac...

African Americans and Hypertension

p. 12). Additionally, many blacks believe the principal cause of hypertension to be stress, "resulting from being black, experienc...

Lifestyle Factors in Hypertension

other organs. Renal damage is of particular concern. Addressing hypertension first demands identifying the condition. Unfortun...

Nutrition and its applicability to hypertension

mm Hg or greater and a diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm HG or greater, hypertension can have a number of serious pathophysiologic...

A Proposed Program on Hypertension

and gender groups between 1999 and 2004, in African American women this incidence of hypertension increased by 14 percent (Taylor,...

Cultural Considerations for a Home-Bound African American Patient

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

JNC 7 Hypertension Recommendations

This research paper discusses the recommendations made by the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detect...

An Article Detailing Hypertension and its Treatment

In the article titled "Five steps to more effective treatment of hypertension in primary care" author Margaret Allen...

Study Proposal/African American Women and hypertension

which will be used to answer the research questions and determine if the main hypothesis has been verified. The student researchin...

HTN and Transcultural Nursing

a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...

Case Study, Essential Hypertension

male steel mill worker who was diagnosed as having essential hypertension, with nursing diagnoses indicating altered cardiac outpu...

The Elderly, Medications for Hypertension and Depression

This research paper presents a discussion of prescription, non-prescription and herbal drugs that can be utilized in treating the...

Literature Review, Hypertension

This research paper is a literature review of hypertension, which explores the incidence, causality, morbidity and mortality of th...

Women and Hypertension

In five pages this paper examines women's health in a consideration of hypertension with various risks and blood pressure reductio...

Hypertension

This paper presents a six page examination of hypertension or high blood pressure in a discussion of various treatments, natural r...

Genetics and High Blood Pressure

In five pages this argumentative essay contends that genetics rather than environment are responsible for hypertension. Eight sou...

Association Between Hypertension and Exercise

In ten pages this paper considers the connection between hypertension reduction and exercise. Seven sources are cited in the bibl...

2 Journal Articles on Hypertension Reviewed

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

Cocaine's Chemistry and its Impact

Erthroxylon coca. The active ingredient was first isolated by Westerners by a man named Albert Niemann in 1860. The drug soon beca...