\n Deborah is 56 years old, smokes half a pack of cigarettes a day, and is\u00a0overweight. Her friend wants her to come to a local women\u2019s fitness class\u00a0she attends to once a week. She knows Deborah\u2019s dad had died an acute\u00a0myocardial infarction when he was 56, and she fears, seeing Deborah\u2019s\u00a0lifestyle, the same fate awaits her friend. What she did not know was that\u00a0Deborah had also been to her doctor for her annual physical where she\u00a0was told her LDLs were 180 mg\/dL, HDLs were 36 mg\/dL, and cholesterol\u00a0was 239 mg\/dL.1. What are Deborah\u2019s known risk factors for coronary heart disease?2. Deborah\u2019s doctor referred her to a dietician for strict dietary\u00a0therapy, hoping the intervention would raise her HDL and lower her\u00a0LDL and cholesterol levels. Why is diet modification necessary to\u00a0control and moderate the lipids indicated?3. Deborah\u2019s doctor also gave her pamphlets describing strategies to\u00a0stop smoking and a list of exercise ideas she might want to try.\u00a0How is smoking thought to contribute to atherosclerotic plaque\u00a0formation? Why would exercise have a positive effect on Deborah\u2019s\u00a0lipid profile?4. Atherosclerosis is thought to be an inflammatory disorder. What is\u00a0the role of macrophages in the formation of atherosclerotic\u00a0plaques? What is the significance of elevated serum hs-CRP levels\u00a0in at-risk individuals?\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deborah is 56 years old, smokes half a pack of cigarettes a day, and is\u00a0overweight. Her friend wants her to come to a local women\u2019s fitness class\u00a0she attends to once a week. She knows Deborah\u2019s dad had died an acute\u00a0myocardial infarction when he was 56, and she fears, seeing Deborah\u2019s\u00a0lifestyle, the same fate awaits her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}