American Heart Association
Essays

Although it is presently a worldwide problem, obesity is not actually a new phenomenon. Experts in Europe and the Middle East found obese figures dating from 23,000 to 25,000 years ago. These figures were likely to be deities from the Paleolithic era. In Neolithic these corpulent figures invoked fertility for people and plants and they were often named Mother Goddesses. In the Modern era figures of obese women continued to appear not only as figurines, but also in paintings.

This paper discusses the appropriate procedure for a hospital to follow when a patient presents with atypical symptoms of a heart attack. Current core measures dictate a specific response when patients present with classic heart attack symptoms such as chest pain. However, early heart attack symptoms are often more subtle, and a significant percentage of heart attack patients never experience the classic symptoms. This paper advocates expanding the core measures to include patients presenting with atypical AMI symptoms.

The concept of emotional labor first came from a book written by a.R. Hochschild and in that he described the concept of emotional labor. The name of the book was "The Managed Heart." According to his definition it was…

Generic Drugs in Prevention of Chronic Disease

Nurses and educational requirements and patient requests -- For most of history, medical care has been the purview of a select few who held all the information and were even quite reluctant to share it with the…

Obesity is one of the most pressing and serious public health problems of the 21st century. Although the patterns of obesity differ between developing and developed countries, obesity rates are increasing worldwide.

Preventable Heart Disease in Young Adults

Stroke is one of the leading health concerns in the United States affecting approximately more than 795,000 people every year. With more than 143,579 deaths per year, stroke is the third leading cause of mortality in…

Over the last several years, the issue of coronary heart disease (CAD) has been increasingly brought to the forefront. Part of the reason for this, is because of the increasing number of cases that are being reported in…

Childhood obesity is a serious medical condition that affects both children and adolescents. This condition occurs when a child is above the normal weight for their age. The number of overweight children has…