KINESIOL 4B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vagal Tone, Afterload, Adrenergic Receptor
28 Dec 2016
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Trends in canada: unlike other cvds, prevalence of heart failure hasn"t changed: we are getting better at treating mis but still have risk factors (lifestyle) much over the last decade. Increasing life expectancy and people surviving heart attacks. Ischemic heart disease is the main cause of heart failure (50%: other causes: Bacterial infection that migrates to the heart. Hf is end result of all cardiac disease (from everything that goes wrong with your heart) Older and sicker and more difficult to deal with: billions of dollars. Top 3 cv medications dispensed in canada. Cost for medications each year has increased over the past decade by >200% Patients with left sided systolic heart failure have a lower ejection fracture. Congestion in the lungs is a sign of heart failure (fluid has leaked out) Drop in q, and baroreceptors not stimulated. Acute mis have dropped by 40% over the past 10 years.
