can cause severe damage to the body ’s organs‚ including the brain‚ heart‚ blood vessels‚ and kidneys. Risk factors for hypertension include: increasing age‚ male‚ race (African Americans‚ Hispanics)‚ diabetes‚ family history‚ high sodium diet‚ obesity‚ physical inactivity‚ alcohol‚ and tobacco use. The goal for treating people with this chronic condition is to decrease mortality and increase quality of life (Wang‚ MD & Vasan‚ MD‚ 2005 ). In Mr. Garcia case‚ he was asymptomatic and was found
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Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease OBESE WOMEN AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Jo Marino HCS/465 Date Dr. Ivone Bruno Abstract Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States‚ having actually the same prevalence in women and among men. A study based on obese women and cardiovascular disease risk was performed. Weight loss in the program was not following along with the reduction of other cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular disease
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Systems Thinking and Obesity Heather Chrissis Systems Thinking‚ OLAM 310 Professor Don Solomon May 2‚ 2010 Systems Thinking and Obesity From the time I was 6 years old I have wanted just one really personal thing for my life and that is to be thin. I was always the girl who thought she weighed more than anyone else in the class. I have been plagued my entire life by this overwhelming issue of being overweight. True understanding of why I was overweight and what caused it has for many
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Childhood Obesity: An Overview Dora Matagić‚ PO2 recent research evidence on a number of aspects of childhood obesity: definition and prevalence consequences causes and prevention body mass index (BMI) as a means of defining obesity in children and adolescents it does matter to physical and psychological health there are adverse health risks for both the obese child and the adult who was obese as a child Introduction and aim Strategies to combat childhood obesity have been overtaken
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Is Obesity Really a Disease? The controversial debate on whether obesity should be classified as a disease has been around for some time. Recently‚ the American Medical Association officially classified obesity as a disease. Disease is generally defined as an abnormal condition that results from developmental errors and/or unfavorable environmental factors that cannot be controlled. It can be caused by an external source‚ such as some sort of pathogen or an internal dysfunction of cells. Obesity
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English-103 18 October 2014 Is Obesity a Disease? More than two-thirds of U.S. adults‚ and about one third of school aged children are overweight or obese. Obesity rates have more than doubled in adults and children since the 1970s. Becoming obese is based on ethnicity‚ gender‚ socioeconomic status‚ and diet. Obesity is a way of life that is determined by one ’s decisions‚ obesity is not a disease and is 100% preventable. There are many factors that contribute to obesity‚ including larger portion sizes
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Some people can actually be diagnosed with a condition called: obesity. There are some medical professionals out there that say that Obesity qualifies as a disease. Whether obesity is a condition or disease‚ Obesity is an abnormal high proportion/percent of body fat. A doctor can assess the percentage of body fat simply and easily by measuring body weight in proportion to height‚ which is the usual way of determining if an individual is overweight‚ obese‚ or at normal‚ healthy weight. A physician/doctor
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Obesity is a serious disease in today’s society. Obesity is defined as having excessive fat in body tissues. The most common measure of obesity is the body mass index (BMI). Besides‚ obesity is influenced by many causes such as eating habits‚ unhealthy lifestyle‚ and genetics. Firstly‚ the cause of obesity in our society is eating habits. Our bodies require calories for daily normal functions and activities. Gaining weight occurs due to increase in the amount of calories consumed over its need.
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The Relationship between Obesity and Diabetes Melissa Westfall COM155 09/22/2013 Paul Howell The Relationship between Obesity and Diabetes Diabetes and obesity are two different chronic diseases; however‚ they share many similarities that link them together. Some Similarities are characterized by genetics‚ depression‚ and medication‚ just to name a few. Enough information can be found on both diseases to pull them together‚ but
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Challenges in Nursing: Increased Childhood Obesity & the Effects on Nursing Lance Van Middle Georgia State College Challenges in Nursing: Increased Childhood Obesity & the Effects on Nursing Modern nurses encounter many difficulties while fulfilling their role as a patient advocate‚ educator‚ and partner. One major task nurses are confronted with is the growing epidemic of childhood obesity as younger patients are being treated for serious conditions usually associated
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