A Purple Heart is authorized for the first wound suffered under conditions indicated above, but for each subsequent award an oak leaf cluster is awarded.

Non-physiological flow conditions ( espacially high values of shear stress ) caused by arterial stenosis or artificial devices ( Mechanical Heart Valves, blood pumps etc ) can also lead to platelet activation.

Heart conditions such as dilated cardiomyopathy, where the heart becomes weakened and enlarged, and sick sinus syndrome, which is a type of abnormal heart beating which causes low blood pressure, have been identified in the breed.

Judith Giuliani also acted as the national spokesperson for Women's Heart Advantage, which seeks to raise awareness among women and their doctors about preventing heart-related health conditions.

Antibiotics are administered to patients with certain heart conditions as a precaution, although this practice has changed in the US, with new American Heart Association guidelines released in 2007, and in the UK as of March 2008 due to new NICE guidelines.

* Down's Heart Group UK National charity related to heart conditions associated with Down's Syndrome.

Retirees from military service, veterans with service-connected injuries or conditions rated by VA, and Purple Heart recipients are within the higher priority groups.

* Down's Heart Group Specific information relating to heart conditions and Down's Syndrome.

Three thousand and thirty people with one of three conditions ( Diabetes, Chronic Heart Failure and COPD ) were included in the telehealth trial.

Whereas other medical specialities have emerged from others, i. e. Cardiology emerged when practicing general physicians decided to concentrate on, Heart conditions, SEM has not emerged from any other speciality, and therefore most of its practitioners do not practice within the NHS.

Data from the landmark Framingham Heart Study showed that, for a given level of LDL, the risk of heart disease increases 10-fold as the HDL varies from high to low.

The Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation ( HOPE ) Study followed almost 10, 000 patients for 4. 5 years who were at high risk for heart attack or stroke.

Bodegraven has a strategic location in the middle of the Green Heart, resulting in a relative high number of industries located here.

Sacred Heart School is a Roman Catholic elementary, middle, and high school.

An all-female Catholic college, the college sticks out in the downtown area due to the high spire of St. Joseph's church itself, and the rotunda and dome of the Monastery & College Sacred Heart Chapel.

In the meantime, the school has been renting facilities for the middle school and high school programs at the former campus of Sacred Heart College in Belmont since 1994.

Stephen T. Badin High School, a private Catholic high school of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and several Catholic elementary schools ( St. Ann, St. Peter in Chains, St. Joseph Consolidated School, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Queen of Peace, and Mother Teresa ), serve the city and surrounding area.

Self is known for its high quality Vascular surgery system, Cancer Center, Heart Center, and Neurosurgery among many other things.

That school, Sacred Heart Catholic School still exists today ( one of only four high schools in the Fort Worth Diocese ), along with the public Muenster Independent School District.

Anderson is capable of hitting many high notes, such his E5s at the end of " Heart of the Sunrise " from the album Fragile ( 1971 ), and is able to get at least as low as G # 2, which he displays once and briefly in the song " The Ancient ( Giants Under The Sun )" from Tales from Topographic Oceans ( 1973 ).

As The Blue Belles, their first single was ironically a song that the group didn't participate in-" I Sold My Heart to the Junkman " was, as explained in Patti LaBelle's memoirs, Don't Block the Blessings, originally recorded by The Starlets, then riding high on their hit single, " Tell Him No " and were on the road when the song was released, unable to promote it.

The daughter of politician Alex Herman and schoolteacher Gloria Caponis, Alexis grew up in a Catholic home in Mobile and earned her high school diploma in 1965 from the Heart of Mary High School.

Sacred Heart College of Catholic denomination is the biggest and largest institution with both a high school and a junior college division.

Having been invited by Bishop John Cantwell, seven sisters of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, under the leadership of Mother Cecilia Rafter, R. S. H. M., formed what was first an elementary school and, shortly thereafter, a high school.

As with dairy and meat products, the United States Food and Drug Administration, World Health Organization, International College of Nutrition, United States Department of Health and Human Services, American Dietetic Association, American Heart Association, British National Health Service, and Dietitians of Canada recommend limiting the consumption of significant amounts of coconut oil due to its high levels of saturated fat.

After finishing primary school, Brian Timothy Finn attended Sacred Heart high school boarding school, where he met Jonathan Michael Chunn.

* Sacred Heart was the first Catholic high school in Connecticut, September 6, 1922.

Immaculate Heart Academy is a parochial, college preparatory, all-girls Catholic high school located on Van Emburgh Avenue, operating under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

The valley was originally known as the Valley of Heart ’ s Delight for its high concentration of orchards, flowering trees, and plants.

This is linked to an incident on April 20, 1921, which was staged in the Heart of Jesus Narganá and Westernization movement for women, which was to change clothes, take away the gold ring of the nose, the plates high carat gold, beads, winks and coin necklaces worn ornaments.

O ' Keeffe attended high school at Sacred Heart Academy in Madison, Wisconsin, as a boarder between 1901 and 1902.

Walkerton has two high schools: Walkerton District Secondary School, and Sacred Heart High School.

He grew up in Franklin Square, New York and attended Sacred Heart Seminary in Hempstead, New York during his middle school years and St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary high school in Uniondale, New York.

Heart failure is one condition in which the mechanical properties of the heart have failed or are failing, which means insufficient blood is being circulated.

; Heart failure: Failure of the heart to produce sufficient blood flow to meet metabolic demands of the body.

Heart and its blood vessels, by Leonardo da Vinci, 15th century

* Heart contraction and blood flow ( animation )

Heart rate and respiration rate will increase ( tachycardia and tachypnea ) as blood pressure drops and the heart attempts to supply enough oxygen to the body.

Heart sounds are the noises generated by the beating heart and the resultant flow of blood through it ( specifically, the turbulence created when the heart valves snap shut ).

Heart murmurs are generated by turbulent flow of blood, which may occur inside or outside the heart.

Heart murmurs are produced as a result of turbulent flow of blood, turbulence sufficient to produce audible noise.

Heart failure ( HF ), often called congestive heart failure ( CHF ) or congestive cardiac failure ( CCF ), is an inability of the heart to provide sufficient pump action to distribute blood flow to meet the needs of the body.

* Myocardial infarction (" Heart attack ") refers to heart muscle damage due to insufficient blood supply, usually as a result of a blocked coronary artery.

Heart failure may be the result of coronary artery disease, and its prognosis depends in part on the ability of the coronary arteries to supply blood to the myocardium ( heart muscle ).

However, according to data from the British Heart Foundation, "… clinical trials of grape seed extract, which have shown that 200 – 300 mg per day will lower blood pressure.

Research published in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension showed drinking 500 ml of beetroot juice led to a reduction in blood pressure within one hour.

A study in the January 10, 2003, issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association tested a genetically engineered drug called desmoteplase, which uses the anticoagulant properties of the saliva of Desmodus rotundus, and was shown to increase blood flow in stroke patients.

* Heart malformations ( congenital or appearing later ) especially an obstruction of the normal flow of blood from the lower right ventricle of the heart to the lungs ( valvar pulmonary stenosis )

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ( NHLBI ) provides leadership for a national program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lung, and blood ; blood resources ; and sleep disorders.

Like the Heart, the Pericardium governs blood and stores the mind.

According to the account of the original consultation between the three provided in Vivien Thomas ' 1985 autobiography Partners of the Heart, Taussig carefully described the anomaly of Tetralogy of Fallot, but made no suggestion about the specific surgical correction required, observing merely that it should be possible to get more blood to the lungs, " as a plumber changes pipes around.

* Chen, W. et al., Combined effects of endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphism ( G894T ) and insulin resistance status on blood pressure and familial risk of hypertension in young adults: the Bogalusa Heart Study.

* Heart palpitations, as the heart races to compensate for the falling blood pressure