Lifestyle Habits and the Cardiovascular System

Is trading that cigarette and that alcoholic beverage for a treadmill and a plate of salad enough to safeguard against cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Before you begin the practice of avoidance, suppressing or avoiding unhealthy behaviors without embracing healthier ones still might leave you with the clogged and thickened arteries of atherosclerosis, another type of CVD. In order to educate populations susceptible to CVD, how might positive and negative lifestyle habits influence this health threat?

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For this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider the relationship between lifestyle habits and CVD. Then, think about the influence of inflammation on the development of CVD. Finally, select a negative lifestyle habit that might influence the cardiovascular system and reflect on how it might influence the progression of CVD.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 a brief explanation of the relationship between lifestyle habits and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Then, explain the influence of inflammation on the development of CVD. Finally, describe the negative lifestyle habit you selected and explain how it might influence the progression of CVD. Be specific.

Be sure to support your posts and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

READINGS

Contrada, R. J. (2011). The handbook of stress science: Biology, psychology, and health. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, LLC.
- Chapter 28, “Stress and the Heart: Psychosocial Stress and Coronary Heart Disease” (pp. 385–398)
- Chapter 29, “Stress and Cardiometabolic Syndrome” (pp. 399–410)
- Chapter 37, “Cardiovascular Measures in Stress Research: Methodological, Analytic, and Inferential Issues” (pp. 515–530)
Denollet, J., Gidron, Y., Vrints, C. J., & Conraads, V. M. (2010). Anger, suppressed anger, and risk of adverse events in patients with coronary artery disease. The American Journal of Cardiology, 105(11), 1555–1560.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Poole, L., Dickens, C., & Steptoe, A. (2010). The puzzle of depression and acute coronary syndrome: Reviewing the role of acute inflammation. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 71(2), 61–68.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Prochaska, J. O., DiClemente, C. C., & Norcross, J. C. (1992). In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors. American Psychologist, 47(9), 1102–1114.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Waltman, M. A., Russell, D. C., Coyle, C. T., Enright, R. D., Holter, A. C., & Swoboda, C. M. (2009). The effects of a forgiveness intervention on patients with coronary artery disease. Psychology & Health, 24(1), 11–27.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
American Heart Association. (n. d.). Inflammation and heart disease. Retrieved from http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/Inflammation-and-Heart-Disease_UCM_432150_Article.jsp
Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012). Heart disease. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/
De Oliveira, C., Watt, R., & Hamer, M. (2010). Toothbrushing, inflammation, and risk of cardiovascular disease: Results from Scottish Health Survey. British Medical Journal, 340. Retrieved from http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2451.full
Copyright 2010 by the British Medical Journal. Used by permission of BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP LTD. via the Copyright Clearance Center.
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Optional Resources

Hamzah, M. O., & Turki, K. M. (2011). Serum Levels of Interleukin-1 Alpha and Interleukin-6 in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients. Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 9(3), 281–284.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Krantz, D. S., Olson, M. B., Francis, J. L., Phankao, C., Merz, C. N. B., Sopko, G., … Matthews, K. A. (2006). Anger, hostility, and cardiac symptoms in women with suspected coronary artery disease: The women’s ischemia syndrome evaluation (WISE) study. Journal of Women’s Health, 15(10), 1214–1223.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Velicer, W. F, Prochaska, J. O., Fava, J. L., Norman, G. J., & Redding, C. A. (1998). Smoking cessation and stress management: Applications of the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change. Homeostasis, 38, 216–233. Retrieved from http://www.uri.edu/research/cprc/TTM/detailedoverview.htm
World Health Organization. (2012). Cardiovascular disease: Global atlas on cardiovascular disease prevention and control. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/cardiovascular_diseases/en/