A Healthy Retirement

A healthy retirement

1.

Jim:  Healthy things......cutting the grass (exercise), he takkes medication to prevent heart attacks

Jim:  Not-So-Healthy..... Overweight, smokes, sits around too much

Nancy: Healthy things..... Swims and lift weights, 

Nancy:  Not-So-Healthy..... Overweight, eats pie, eats until is stuffed not satisfied, heartburn or possible heartattack, sits around too much, high cholesterol, high blood glucose. 

2. diabetes (Nancy's BG is 128 and it's too high), High Blood Pressure (Nancy's BP 138/85) pry hypertensive(hypertension), obesity (overwight and high LDL and cholesterol), atherosclerosis ( high LDL and cholesterol, diabetes), heart disease (all of the above are riskk factors). 

3. What does their diet consist of?

Does Jim exercise?

How often do they have physical assessment?

4. Nancy's back pain, fatigue, nausea, and shortness of breath are typical

for women. Because the symptoms are different from typical male symptoms they are called 'angina. Women do not usually experience chest pain. 

equivalent symptoms. Men feel chest heaviness as well as pain in their arm, neck, jaw, shoulder, chest pain. If it is stable it should go away with rest or medication. If it is chronic the pain does not goes away which leads to a heart attack.

5. Angina is a type of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart muscle. Angina  is a symptom of coronary artery disease. Angina is typically described as squeezing, pressure, heaviness, tightness or pain in your chest. Your blood carries oxygen, which your heart muscle needs to survive. When your heart muscle isn't getting enough oxygen, it causes a condition called ischemia.

The most common cause of reduced blood flow to your heart muscle is coronary artery disease (CAD). Your heart (coronary) arteries can become narrowed by fatty deposits called plaques. This is called atherosclerosis.

6. when she rests her heart demands less oxygen and less blood needs to be pumped to the heart...