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Emma Wood
Jean Coco
English 1001
11 November 2016
Annotated Bibliography
"Coping With What You Can't Change." Harvard Heart Letter 21.4 (2010): 5. Academic Search
Complete. Web. 10 Nov. 2016.
This source is a magazine article from the Harvard Heart Letter, and it talks about the
risks of heart disease that a person cant change. They are the risks that were given to a
specific person at birth and are genetically implanted in the hardwiring of his body. It
talks about how there are very few things a person can do to prevent heart disease if he
was already born with those risks in his genetics. Even this article is not part of a
scholarly reviewed journal, it can still be used to get a general idea of trustworthy
information, being written in a Harvard magazine proves its credibility. Is there an author?
If so, add more info here to establish his/her credibility. Is this a .org or a
.edu site?
The article also provides ample information under a total of ten categories about how a
person can detect or predict the formation of a cardiovascular disorder. I believe this
article will prove to be very helpful in the writing of my paper because it will give me the
necessary background knowledge to understand how it is developed and where heart
disease comes from.

Heart Disease: All in the Family History. Harvards Mens Health Watch 20.7 (2016): 4.
Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Oct. 2106.

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This magazine article is from the Harvards Mens Health Watch and explains why a
persons family history is important to the detection of a heart disease in its early stages,
and if that person is at a high risk for a certain heart disease. It states that a disease cannot
only come from a persons genes, but it could also come from a familys lifestyle. It also
gives helpful tips on how to catch the disease and ways to lower its risk factors before it
becomes a problem. This article could be useful for me in describing why a persons
family history is important in detecting if a certain heart disease is hereditary or not by
looking at family patterns. It will allow me to get a look at the health of a family lineage
of heart conditions based on a familys certain genetics and lifestyle choices. This is not
credible medical source because it is published in a magazine NC & MC, not in a peer
reviewed scholarly journal. It is mainly a source to give lay people, like me, a summarized
version and idea of how family history works when diagnosing or discovery a heart
condition.

"Heart diseaseits all relative." Harvard Heart Letter 16.7 (2006): 7. Academic Search
Complete. Web. 10 Nov. 2016.
This magazine article from the Harvard Heart Letter was very informative on reasons
heart disease could be evident in not only parents and children but also in siblings. It also
talked about a study in Framingham that brought light to these assumptions of siblings
having a greater chance of both having or developing a heart condition. This article
although not written in a scholarly journal brought me much insight of siblings and family
medical trees. I believe it will also be helpful as background knowledge for my opinions
and accusations of heart disease and its diagnoses. This source is directed towards those

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who dont know much about family health history and want to know more about how it
could affect their lives. This source proves to be creditable because it comes from one of
the top ivy league schools, Harvard Medical. Is there an author of the article?

"Heart Disease Risk May Be All In The Family. (Cover Story)." Harvard Women's Health
Watch 13.6 (2006): 1-2. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Nov. 2016.
This Harvard Womens Health article explains and summarizes the way heart disease can
present itself differently in men and women, and that men and women do not always have
the same symptoms to tell if one has a heart condition or not. It does focus somewhat
heavily on one factor that they both have in common: family history. Family history is
important in determining whether a person is at risk for a certain heart disease or not
because it is like a road map to their destination, whether that destination be heart
troubles or heart perfection. This article is not a scholarly journal because it uses very
common language so that the general public can understand it and learn something from
the article, just as I have. This article will prove helpful to me because the family history
portion is part of my focus, so I believe that having this background and understanding
will allow me to talk more accurately about the topic.

Shirato, Susan, and Beth Ann Swan. "Women And Cardiovascular Disease: An Evidentiary
Review." MEDSURG Nursing 19.5 (2010): 282-306. Academic Search Complete. Web. 1
Nov. 2016.
This journal goes in depth into the signs a symptoms of a potential heart disease and how
they can present themselves differently in men than women. It goes into depth defining

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the background, possible treatments, and other factors of women living with heart
disease. It was a very helpful scholarly journal to read and use information from because
it described and presented the information in a way that I could clearly understand what
it means for a woman to have a heart disease, and being a young woman myself, I felt I
connected with it and would be able to use its evidence in my paper. I can rely on this
source because both of the authors have medical credentials and backgrounds; Susan
Shirato, DNP, RN, CCRN, is an instructor, Jefferson School of Nursing, Thomas
Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, and Beth Ann Swan, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, is a
professor, Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Program, Jefferson School of Nursing,
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA This is a good example of
establishing author credibility. Add this kind of information to the other
entries. They put their knowledge I nto this journal, and it will help me form
conclusions and back up those conclusions when writing my paper describing heart
disease and its effects on a persons life.

Shrestha, Roman, and Michael Copenhaver. "Long-Term Effects Of Childhood Risk Factors On
Cardiovascular Health During Adulthood." Clinical Medicine Reviews In Vascular
Health 7 (2015): 1-5. Academic Search Complete. Web. 1 Nov. 2016.
In this medical study, Roman Shrestha and Michael Copenhaver studied the trends of
heart disease and its causes throughout a persons life. They explored six categories and
how each one played a part through childhood to adulthood in their heart function. They
found that childhood behaviors become habits and are hard to break once in adulthood, so
they suggest starting out with good habits in childhood that way they can control or

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prevent great damage to their heart in the future. Roman Shrestha is a research assistant,
community medicine and health care affiliate; he has a B.S. from Willey College in
Biology and Chemistry and a MPH from the University of Connecticut Health Center in
2013, making him a reliable author for the journal. Michael Copenhaver is an associate
professor and has a B.A. from Clemson University in psychology, a M.S. from Villanova
University in experimental psychology, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech You only need
to mention the Ph.D. That goes for the previous prof as well. Just mention
the MPH. in clinical
psychology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale from 1999-2000. These two men are
very educated and capable of conducting this level of research that I can rely on to be
creditable for my paper. Their information proves to be helpful for me with writing this
paper because one of the topics I want to focus on is the effects of childhood habits have
on a person as an adult. This journal is perfect because it is based on the same content, so
I will have ample information to make conclusions from and even quote for evidence to
my conclusions.

ygarden, Halvor, et al. "A Family History Of Stroke Is Associated With Increased IntimaMedia Thickness In Young Ischemic Stroke - The Norwegian Stroke In The Young
Study (NOR-SYS)." Plos ONE 11.8 (2016): 1-12. Academic Search Complete. Web. 1
Nov. 2016.
This medical experiment was performed in Norway by Norwegian medical persons MC
in order to find the pattern of strokes in the young from a family history of stoke. This scholarly
journal provides me with the extensive results of the experiment and the parameters on which is

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was set, one of them being a family history of CVD which goes in line with my focus. The
outcomes of this experiment will be helpful to me because I will be able to see a connection
between the positive and negative family histories of heart disease in a persons life and how that
relates to their development of a CVD or stroke. In this study, they watched approximately
360,000 patients over the course of five years to see how their families and histories evolved or
changed over time according to their risk factors. They concluded with certain demographics that
were more prone to contributing to developing the disease over the other, and they provided
charts that organized their results and made it easier to see the information that I would be able to
use in my paper.