biol 1612 human anatomy and physiology

human anatomy and physiology

Summary

The cardiovascular disease has been one of the most fatal diseases in the world . And nowadays , it has been categorized into one of the wide ranging and investigative illness in the world . It is a disease merely composed of various individual diss mainly in the heart and in the organs building the circulatory system . For many years , this disease has been one of the chief causes of death not only in the United States but also in the other parts of the world . And for that , this

disease has been one of the challenges that still on top of the challenges that are being faced by the experts in health and medicinal tasks . The coronary heart disease and the cerebrovascular disease are two of the several diseases that compose the cardiovascular diss . Though experts have already tried easing down the death rates caused by this disease , still the cardiovascular disease along with many of its components haunts the bodies of the persons of their next victims . One million deaths which are mostly rooted on the cardiovascular diseases have been recorded during the year of 1997 and up to this year is still increasing and heaving up with it a huge amount of expenditure not only of the victims but also of the persons preventing and thinking ways on how to prevent and treat the disease

However , not long before this disease of the heart and of the circulatory system had come into view , there were also other diseases that had bothered the health of the United States . Diseases like the pneumonia , diarrhea , tuberculosis and others have been the main illness that the United States have been battling with . It was not until 1963 that the deaths caused by coronary heart disease have took over in having the highest record

Over the years of the deaths caused by the cardiovascular diseases experts all over the world began studying on the primary causes of this disease . According to the studies , the factors affecting the occurrence of this disease can be categorized to two : the modifiable and the not modifiable factors . The second one , the not modifiable factors are the ones that are mostly of the genetic preferences . Examples of these factors are gender of the person and family background regarding the disease . On the other hand , the first factor , the modifiable factors are the factors that can still be controlled or managed by the person in not to have the disease . High blood pressure , fat or cholesterol level in the body , smoking , and pressure of the person 's blood , blood sugar , obesity and physical inactivity of the person are cases of the modifiable factors of the cardiovascular diseases

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The cardiovascular system is one of the various systems in the body This system is the one responsible for the transport of the following hormones , food , gases and metabolic wastes . The system is composed of three major components : the blood , the blood vessels and the heart . The...