Estimating CHD Risk
The National Cholesterol Education Program has developed charts for estimating the actual likelihood that one will develop CHD within the next 10 years.
Table 8.4 for adult males (p269), Table 8.5 for adult females (p270)
The ATP 3rd guidelines recommend that this assessment could be used for reducing CHD risk for persons with 2 or more CHD risk factors.
The variab
disease process underlying IHD): age, male sex, hyperlipidaemia (high cholesterol and high fats in the blood), smoking, hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, and the family history.
Signs and symptoms
Ischaemic heartdisease may be present with any of the following problems:
Angina pectoris (chest pain on exertion, in cold weather or emotional situations)
Acute chest pain: acute c
An issue about CHD
Junk food elevates the attack rate of
diabetes and coronary heartdisease
Minesota University in America Professor Andrew O. Odegaard
Conducting a survey of Chinese Singaporean
When having fast food more than twice in a week,
the attack rate of diabetes is 27% and the death rate
of coronary disease is elevated 56%
compared with no eating fast food at all.
The prof
Heartdisease
Cardiovascular(heart) disease
- a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels
- the biggest cause of deaths worldwide
(Wikipedia)
Examples :
Coronary heartdisease
Cardiomyopathy - diseases of cardiac muscle
Hypertensive heartdisease - diseases of the heart secondary to high blood pressure
Heart failure
Cor pulmonale - a failure of the right sid
@ Showed lesions and narrowing consistent with CHD in 77% of
the soldiers whose average was 22 years.
@ Studying the development and progression of coronary artery lesions in infants and chlidren support the view that atherosclerosis begins in childhood and progresses slowly
Into adulthood.
@Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth(PDAY): early atherosclerotic lesions
disease can lead to myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and death, especially in newborn animals. Some infected animals remain asymptomatic, but they nonetheless carry FMD and can transmit it to others.
3) Incubation
The incubation period for foot-and-mouth disease virus has a range between 2 and 12 days.
4) Transmission
The foot-and-mouth disease virus can be transmitted in a nu
Second-hand smoking
Passive smoking
Involuntary smoking
Environmental tobacco smoking
Smoking Form of Partner and Amount of Nicotine of Pregnant Woman's Hair
- Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital
Children and infants
Middle-ear disease
Asthma
SIDS(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
Institutional regulation
National Health Promotion Law in 1995
Expandi
2002년초 인기연예인들의 흡연으로 인한 잇단 와병 소식과 2003년도 학교를 포함한 공공장소에 대한 절대금연구역 설정 등으로 인하여 일어난 금연에 대한 사회적 공감대와 더불어, 교육인적자원부나 서울시교육청는 흡연예방 및 금연 교육에 대한 강력한 추진 입장을 표명하고, 각급 학교에 학교금연운
Laboratory Monitoring of Patients with HIV Infection
Patients with CD4+ T cell counts <200/L are at high risk of disease from P. jiroveci, while patients with CD4+ T cell counts <50/L are at high risk of disease from CMV, mycobacteria of the M. avium complex (MAC), and/or T. gondii. Patients with HIV infection should have CD4+ T cell measurements performed at the time of diagnosis and every 3&
private medical institutions that give medical sevices of high quality for the rich and foreigners.
But they go through difficult because hospitals are almost unsanitary and lack of equipments and most of hospitals organize by government expenditures.
① Public medical institution
Because of too much using of hospitals, there are difficults.(especially tumor and heart related part)