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There are other risk factors that affect a person’s chances of developing coronary artery disease such as obesity, high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes, lack of regular exercise, high-fat diet, and emotional stress. These other risk factors are preventable and can be changed with daily exercise, eating healthy options, and making healthy daily choices for your heart and body.

     There are eight major contributors that result in heart disease: heredity, smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol (LDL), physical inactivity, obesity, diabetes, and arterial inflammation. The remaining seven contributors can be controlled, or at least reduced to safer levels that will help prevent or even reverse the disease, prevent a heart attack, and prolong one’s life.

Research bias has been the cause for many research projects to have misleading or correct information. Research bias occurs when the author researches only for articles or writing material that corresponds to his own ideas. This causes the author to ignore potential writing materials that may have had an important role in his research. It also causes him to expect results that match with his mindset and not see other viewpoints. All researchers should avoid research bias by using different methods and ideas to receive a better result.

1. Do you think the characteristics of feudalism help explain the later success of Western & Japanese societies?

Throughout my research, a challenge I encountered was the fact that some of the articles I encountered seemed to included biases within them especially with the primary view of

It couldn’t effectively deal with the tax collection, flood control, social welfare, and public security. (Original: p. 565; With Sources: p. 883)

Much of the burden caused by cardiovascular is preventable. Major modifiable risk factors include tobacco smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, insufficient physical activity, overweight and obesity, diabetes,

II. Unhealthy eating and physical inactivity are the leading causes of death in the U.S. according to the Human department of Health and Services.

According to the community health profile in riverside county the ten leading causes of death are: Heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease (CLRD), stroke, unintentional injuries, Alzheimer’s disease,

“In the United Sates, dietary supplements are regulated by the FDA through the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act” (Schmillen, 2013., p. 4) but in 1994 the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was altered by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) to create more current standards for dietary supplements (Schmillen, 2013., p. 4). “The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act defines a dietary ingredient as a vitamin; mineral; herb or other botanical; amino acid; dietary substance

year. In 20th century the leading causes for chronic disease are smoking, alcohol and immoderate

Some of the risk factors for heart disease are smoking, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, inactivity, stress, and type A personality. Are these risk factors necessary causes, sufficient causes, or component causes?

The leading cause of death in the United States is heart disease with 614,348 deaths in 2014 (NCHS, 2015). Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common heart disease in the United States and causes over 370,000 deaths annually (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health

Atherosclerosis is almost worldwide. Although it is hard to estimate how common atherosclerosis is, almost all adults have various parts of the illness. Cardiovascular disease is the single most common cause of illness and death in the developed country accounting for one in three of all deaths! Heart attacks due to coronary artery disease and strokes due to carotid artery disease are responsible for more deaths than all other causes combined. According to statics more than 80,000 people with cardiovascular disease died in 2005, making it the No.1 killer in America. Not only that, but each year in England and Wales, an estimated 124,000 deaths are caused by CVD, where about 39,000 of them occur in people under the age of 75. Due to the continuing obesity prevalent, it is predicted that atherosclerosis will continue to be a major health problem in this country.

The most important piece of information that I learned is that the description of bias in research is, a deviation from the true results and there is almost no way to avoid it. Bias happens when there is an underlying factor continuously deforms the new findings of a study (EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE: What is bias in health research?, 2009).