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Cardiac Risk Calculator and Assessment
2025-02-25 10:45:02| Spiritual Career Counseling
What is a cardiac risk calculator?A cardiac risk calculator is a screening tool. You and your healthcare provider can use it to determine your risk of future cardiovascular disease. The information can help you take steps to reduce your risk. Lifestyle changes or medications may help prevent life-threatening heart problems.AdvertisementCleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. PolicyWhat does a cardiac risk calculator (cardiovascular risk assessment) do?A cardiac risk calculator uses your personal health information to gauge your future risk of cardiovascular disease (heart disease). It can help determine the likelihood of:Atherosclerosis.Coronary artery disease.Heart attack.Heart failure.Stroke.How do healthcare providers use cardiovascular risk assessments?Your healthcare provider uses results from cardiac risk calculators to:Assess your current heart health...
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Great Leaders: Who was King Gwanggaeto the Great?
2025-02-24 14:45:02| Spiritual Career Counseling
Ifthe West looks upon Alexander the Great as the greatest conqueror that theyhave seen, In Korea, they turned to Gwanggaeto the Great as their equivalent. Whois this Gwanggaeto the Great? And why the Koreans revered him as one of theirgreatest leaders in history?Name:Gwanggaeto the GreatCountry: Goguryeo (Modern day Korea andManchuria)Position: KingTenure:391 - 413Contributions:Defended his people from invasionExpanded Goguryeo's territoryEnlarged his kingdom's sphere of influenceUnified virtually the Korea PeninsulaWho was Gwanggaetothe Great?Gwanggaetothe Great, a name meaning The Great Expander of Territory was born as Prince Damdokof the Kingdom of Goguryeo (Koguryo) in 374. A son of King Gogugyang, he grewup imbued with Buddhist and Confucianist values, which his father andgrandfather promulgated. Also, he also had to learn to be a great warrior,following a long time tradition of military leaders since the time of theirkingdoms founder King Jumong in 37 BCE. In 391, his father pa...
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Bronze Bowl with Inscription of King Gwanggaeto the Great | Curator's Picks
2025-02-24 14:45:02| Spiritual Career Counseling
The first excavation ever led by Korean archaeologists was conducted by the National Museum of Korea in May 1946 at Noseo-dong Tomb 140, a Silla tomb in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk Province. The decision was made to excavate this particular tomb because it was severely damaged and in danger of being completely destroyed. Tomb 140 is located in the Noseo-dong Burial Ground, which is the westernmost of Gyeongjus Silla burial grounds. In the 1930s, a total of 155 tomb mounds were identified within the city limits of Gyeongju, all of which were assigned a serial number. View of the wooden-chamber tombs with stone mounds of Gyeongju. This burial ground has great significance in the history of Korean archaeology, as the site of the first excavation ever conducted by Korean archaeologists, in 1946. When Tomb 140 was given its serial number, only two meters of its mound remained above ground, and two houses had been built upon that mound. Thus, it was initially thought that the mound contained on...
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