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Item An investigation into the relationship between eating disorder attitudes and coronary heart disease risk factors(Texas Tech University, 1997-12) Cherry, Julie CarlileThe purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between eating disorder attitudes and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors. Forty female undergraduate students served as subjects. The data collection consisted of an eating disorder attitude survey and a CHD risk factor analysis. The resuls of a multiple regression analysis indicated two variables, drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction, which contribute to the explained variance of CHD risk. T-tesis revealed differences in CHD between the high and low-scoring groups of drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction. It was concluded that drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction contribute to the explained variance in CHD risk, and the high and low-scoring groups of these 2 subscales had significantly different CHD risk levels.Item Coronary heart disease, Jungian psychological traits and a college based primary care paradigm(Texas Tech University, 1987-05) Roberts, Ernest ENot availableItem Measurement of electrical admittance to study the onset and progression of myocardial ischemia(2007-12) Kottam, Anil Tharian George, 1979-; Pearce, John A., 1946-The electrical admittance of myocardium can be used to distinguish between stunned, ischemic and necrotic myocardial tissue. Myocardial stunning is the reversible contractile dysfunction following a brief ischemic episode. This reversible nature is clinically significant and is in contrast to the irreversible myocardial dysfunction that occurs with necrosis. This dissertation aims at developing an instrument to measure myocardial admittance during ischemia and subsequent reperfusion and to study the underlying mechanisms governing the onset and progression of ischemia and stunning. The instrument was tested on Langendorff models of the isolated rat heart that has been subjected to varying durations of global no flow ischemia and subsequent reperfusion. The relative permittivity and conductivity of the myocardium was determined and this could be correlated to the state of the tissue.