Running Head: CAUSES AND EFFECTS HEART OF DISEASES 1 CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF HEART DISEASES 8 Causes and Effects of Heart Diseases Jadiam Lopez Aspen University HUM410 – Academic Success: Strengthening Scholarly Writing Professor Heidi Haldeman Date: 06/04/2020 Abstract Cause and Effects of Heart Diseases Heart diseases are among the illness that constitutes a lot of death cases that might be reported daily. In the last three years, research from the World Health Organization shows that around 300000 people died from heart diseases a previous year. Thus, after attending the class that had a discussion about heart diseases, it motivated me to learn more about heart diseases. Could you ever imagine the number of people in the entire world who are willing to know the causes of heart diseases so that they can take caution on what to do and what to avoid? Therefore, this forms another aspect of motivation to carry out the study as it would help the individuals in society and my career as I would be able to become a professional doctor. Among the many causes of heart disease is the lifestyle an individual has, for example, engagement in smoking, having an unhealthy diet, and many more. Lamentably, there is an increase in the number of deaths from heart disease, and unawareness of the causes of heart disease, it would be necessary to study the causes and effects of heart disease. This is crucial because the health of a person promotes his or her well-being. Literature Review Each day new cases form a number of countries that are reported to the WHO, indicating that the figure of people who die from heart diseases and the increased level of unawareness of the causes of heart diseases. Therefore, it is essential to explore the effects brought out by heart diseases and what leads to the contraction of heart diseases. These results are attained from various scholars who have analyzed the causes and consequences of heart disease for a better understanding of the public. The analysis from the scholarly articles would help develop an excellent paper that would create awareness of the causes as well as the effects of heart disease. In the past, there has been a decrease in population due to death cases from heart diseases. An example of this is the United States that leads to the experience of deaths from heart diseases. Coles & amp; Mensah, 2017, engage in giving out the ways in showing how the government can be involved in creating awareness about the disease as these lead to the decrease in the death cases. Most citizens in every country are concerned about their health, and they would wish to do anything so that they can avoid heart diseases (Coles & amp; Mensah, 2017). The outbreak of heart diseases may be caused by the daily activities that individuals engage in that are not suitable for their healt.

1. Running Head: CAUSES AND EFFECTS HEART OF
DISEASES 1
CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF HEART DISEASES
8
Causes and Effects of Heart Diseases
Jadiam Lopez
Aspen University
HUM410 – Academic Success: Strengthening Scholarly Writing
Professor Heidi Haldeman
Date: 06/04/2020
Abstract

2. Cause and Effects of Heart Diseases
Heart diseases are among the illness that constitutes a lot of
death cases that might be reported daily. In the last three years,
research from the World Health Organization shows that around
300000 people died from heart diseases a previous year. Thus,
after attending the class that had a discussion about heart
diseases, it motivated me to learn more about heart diseases.
Could you ever imagine the number of people in the entire
world who are willing to know the causes of heart diseases so
that they can take caution on what to do and what to avoid?
Therefore, this forms another aspect of motivation to carry out
the study as it would help the individuals in society and my
career as I would be able to become a professional doctor.
Among the many causes of heart disease is the lifestyle an
individual has, for example, engagement in smoking, having an
unhealthy diet, and many more. Lamentably, there is an increase

3. in the number of deaths from heart disease, and unawareness of
the causes of heart disease, it would be necessary to study the
causes and effects of heart disease. This is crucial because the
health of a person promotes his or her well-being.
Literature Review
Each day new cases form a number of countries that are
reported to the WHO, indicating that the figure of people who
die from heart diseases and the increased level of unawareness
of the causes of heart diseases. Therefore, it is essential to
explore the effects brought out by heart diseases and what leads
to the contraction of heart diseases. These results are attained
from various scholars who have analyzed the causes and
consequences of heart disease for a better understanding of the
public. The analysis from the scholarly articles would help
develop an excellent paper that would create awareness of the
causes as well as the effects of heart disease.
In the past, there has been a decrease in population due to death
cases from heart diseases. An example of this is the United
States that leads to the experience of deaths from heart diseases.
Coles & amp; Mensah, 2017, engage in giving out the ways in
showing how the government can be involved in creating
awareness about the disease as these lead to the decrease in the
death cases. Most citizens in every country are concerned about
their health, and they would wish to do anything so that they
can avoid heart diseases (Coles & amp; Mensah, 2017). The
outbreak of heart diseases may be caused by the daily activities
that individuals engage in that are not suitable for their health.
Some of these activities are involved in smoking cigarettes or
tobacco consumption. Coles & amp; Mensah, 2017 use the age
factor to show the probability of contracting heart diseases.
The increased cases of death due to heart diseases are due to a
lack of information about the disease. The reports from the
interview carried out by the American Heart Association show
that around 18 percent of people in the country are mindful of
both the causes as well as the effects of heart diseases (Virani et
al., 2020). In contrast, the remaining percent lack of

4. information about heart diseases. However the origins of heart
diseases are related to the vascular factors that are responsible
for stroke in people. Therefore, they impact someone's life, as
most people feel like they are not going to live long enough to
achieve their goals. In avoidance of such cases, the government
is expected to use healthcare professionals who would help in
advising the individuals on what to do as far as heart diseases
are concerned (Virani et al., 2020).
Public opinion is essential in ensuring the cases related to heart
diseases are well tackled. The daily activities that an individual
engages in would be crucial in determining how the individual
can reduce the chances of contracting heart diseases. An
example of this is from Anderson et al.’s 2016 article, where
their research is based on exercise-based CR, leading to a
reduction in cardiovascular mortality. Thus, from the report, we
can see that exercise-based CR is responsible for the
maintenance of quality life and health. The results would help
to conclude that the daily exercises are essential to ensure that
the rate at which an individual contracts any heart disease is
low. The necessity of training helps in providing that an
individual does not contract heart diseases as lack of exercise
might lead to contraction of heart diseases (Anderson et al.
2016).
The causes of heart disease can be analyzed from a specific
perspective, and the general health of a person. Chest pains and
anxiety would automatically lead to the contraction of Coronary
heart disease (Heer et al., 2020). This is because the
maintenance of a positive result from such implications is
unable to ensure that a person's health is maintained. Besides,
there are different beliefs that heart diseases may be an
offspring problem whereby people from the same lineage may
have a problem. When people are aware of such issues, they
should take caution on such beliefs and consider undertaking
the practices that would help in preventing heart disease. De
Heer et al., 2020, shows how chest pains and anxiety would lead
to contraction of heart diseases basing on the substantial

5. baseline for heart diseases.
The buildup in plaque on the artery walls thickens it leading to
the development of problems related to heart diseases.
Therefore, the body cells might be formed, and the formation of
the atherosclerotic plaque would make a specific contract heart
disease (Tabas, 2016). The blood flow proves this through the
arteries whereby if they fail to work, an individual might have
some difficulties in breathing, and thus, it integrates with
atherosclerotic to cause cardiovascular diseases.
Congenital heart defects may be caused some time by not
having a healthy diet. An unhealthy diet may easily form the
contraction of heart disease because, in the build of food, there
is no creation of enough blood that would flow through the
arteries, in the end, resulting in contraction of heart diseases
(Zaidi & Brueckner, 2017). At birth, it is challenging to realize
congenital severe heart defects until an individual grows up to
adulthood (Zaidi & Brueckner, 2017). Therefore, the main point
derived from these causes is that healthcare professions and
people should work together to at least reduce heart disease
cases.
Discussion
Conclusion

6. References
Anderson, L., Oldridge, N., Thompson, D. R., Zwisler, A. D.,
Rees, K., Martin, N., & Taylor, R. S. (2016). Exercise-
based cardiac rehabilitation for coronary heart disease:
Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the
American College of Cardiology, 67(1), 1-12.
Coles, E., & amp; Mensah, G. (2017). The Burden of
Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases in the United States, 1990 to
2016: Perspectives from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute. Global Heart, 12(4), 349.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2017.11.001.
de Heer, E. W., Palacios, J. E., Adèr, H. J., van Marwijk, H. W.,
Tylee, A., & van der Feltz Cornelis, C. M. (2020). Chest
pain, depression and anxiety in coronary heart disease:
Consequence or cause? A prospective clinical study in primary
care. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 129, 109891.
Tabas, I. (2016). Heart disease: Death-defying plaque
cells. Nature, 536(7614), 32-33.
Virani, S. S., Alonso, A., Benjamin, E. J., Bittencourt, M. S.,
Callaway, C. W., Carson, A.P... & amp; Djousse, L.
(2020). Heart disease and stroke statistics-2020 update: a report
from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 141(9),
e139-e596.
Zaidi, S., & Brueckner, M. (2017). Genetics and genomics
of congenital heart disease. Circulation research, 120(6), 923-
940.
Annotated Bibliography
Coles, E., & amp; Mensah, G. (2017). The Burden of Heart,
Lung, and Blood Diseases in the United States, 1990 to 2016:
Perspectives from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute. Global Heart, 12(4), 349.

7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2017.11.001.
The article focus on showing the burden that the heart, lung,
and blood diseases have caused to the United States. The
authors were able to spot the number of deaths that occurred
from the cases related to heart diseases. Therefore, this allowed
them to offer directions on how the government could ensure
steward leadership and introduce research programs that would
help reduce the cases related to heart disease. The research
conducted and data provided by the authors, it is clear that heart
diseases are the leading cause of deaths in the United States.
The explanation of age-standardized rates also shows the
reasons and activities that people engage in and leads to heart
disease. Therefore, in the end, the rate at which people die per a
specific age bracket becomes high. This makes the population of
the country also to decrease as many people die. The article is
relevant to my paper since it highlights the impacts of heart
diseases on a community and the activities people engage in
that could lead to heart disease contraction. Besides, the
findings were discussed across the population in the United
States and addressed the effects of heart diseases on the
population, making it also relevant to the topic.
Virani, S. S., Alonso, A., Benjamin, E. J., Bittencourt, M. S.,
Callaway, C. W., Carson, A. P., ...& Djousse, L.
(2020). Heart disease and stroke statistics-2020 update: a report
from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 141(9),
e139-e596.
The authors focused on giving reports about heart diseases and
stroke and the outcomes that come from these diseases. The
research was done due to the increase in the number of death
cases that come from heart diseases. Besides, the citizens of the
country were not aware of some of the causes of heart diseases,
and this attracted the attention of the American Heart
Association to use the committee to carry out the research. The
explanation of this was derived from causes like Tobacco use,
whereby a lot of citizens in the United States use electronic
cigarettes, which they tend to assume the effects they can bring

8. to a human body. From the article, vascular factors are
responsible for stroke in older people and young people. Thus,
in most cases, the joint effects of heart disease may lead to
individuals becoming depressed. In the end, the victims
suffering from the disease are advised to accept the situation
and use the prescriptions to prevent pain. This journal is
relevant to my study as it shows the cause and effects of heart
disease and how people could accept the situation they are in if
they have the disease. This is done by the information they
would have from the causes and effects of heart diseases.
Anderson, L., Oldridge, N., Thompson, D. R., Zwisler, A. D.,
Rees, K., Martin, N., & Taylor, R. S. (2016). Exercise-based
cardiac rehabilitation for coronary heart disease: Cochrane
systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the
American College of Cardiology, 67(1), 1-12.
The journal primarily focuses on how the exercise-based CR
would lead to a reduction of cases involving cardiovascular
mortality. Thus, the author brings out the systematic review that
is attained from the analysis done between a particular numbers
of people in a period of six months. Therefore, to achieve
suitable results, the author utilizes public opinion on how what
they engage in as exercise to reduce the probability of
contracting heart diseases. The research is also incorporated
with the quality of life an individual has when he or she has
heart disease. Generally, the results from the study show that
exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation ensures that the quality of
life and health of a person is maintained, reducing
cardiovascular mortality. This is appropriate for my research
question, as it shows how individuals can prevent heart disease
contractions.
Zaidi, S., & Brueckner, M. (2017). Genetics and genomics of
congenital heart disease. Circulation research, 120(6), 923-
940.
The journal points out how CHD is a congenital disability and
the advancements of the disease as an individual grows up.
According to the research, the number of adults living with

9. CHD is high as compared to the children. This is done by the
improvements from the medical and surgical management. The
authors also address the issue by focusing on families and
patients diagnosed with congenital heart disease. Thus, it shows
the disease's transition through a phenotype and how the parents
can get rid of it. The articles relate to the research topic,
whereby it shows that other factors cause heart disease other
than the assumed factors like smoking.
de Heer, E. W., Palacios, J. E., Adèr, H. J., van Marwijk, H. W.,
Tylee, A., & van der Feltz- Cornelis, C. M. (2020). Chest
pain, depression and anxiety in coronary heart disease:
Consequence or cause? A prospective clinical study in
primary care. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 129, 109891.
The book primarily focuses on how chest pains, depression, and
anxiety would lead to the contraction of CHD. Therefore, the
authors carry out interviews in various healthcare facilities as
they have access to data on individuals with coronary heart
disease. From the research, we can see that chest pain is the
leading factor that increases the chances of contracting heart
disease. On the other hand, anxiety and depression do not have
a substantial baseline for heart diseases. Therefore, this makes
it stress and depression to have an intermediate relationship
with chest pains. The book remains relevant to my research
topic, as it discusses the link between heart disease and chest
pains, anxiety, and depression.
Tabas, I. (2016). Heart disease: Death-defying plaque
cells. Nature, 536(7614), 32-33.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5103697/
The article focuses on atherosclerotic plaques that are brought
by the dead cells, which leads to the contraction of heart
disease. When the plaque cells deposit in the body of an
individual, they are found in the arteries, and the store's
percentage determines the probability of having heart disease.
Besides, the study also shows the advancement of plaques until
it forms the vulnerable plaques that may become leaky, and it
would not cause a problem to an individual. Finally, the journal

10. is relevant to my research topic as it shows the role plaques
play in the contraction of heart disease. Therefore, people can
learn how they can prevent such causes of heart disease.
Running Head: CAUSES AND EFFECTS HEART OF
DISEASES
1
Causes and Effects of Heart Diseases
Jadiam Lopez
Aspen Universit
y
HUM410
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11. Academic Success: Strengthening Scholarly Writing
Professor
Heidi Haldeman
Date:
06
/04
/2020
Running Head: CAUSES AND EFFECTS HEART OF
DISEASES 1
Causes and Effects of Heart Diseases
Jadiam Lopez
Aspen University

12. HUM410 – Academic Success: Strengthening Scholarly Writing
Professor Heidi Haldeman
Date: 06/04/2020