Altered systolic and/or diastolic activity of the myocardium is a cardiac muscle dysfunction.  What is the cardiac condition what will result from cardiac muscle dysfunction? 

Data concerning the distribution of stuttering in families of people who stutter would seem to suggest that stuttering runs in families due to genetic factors. 

A 66-year-old man who has been in excellent health, including running marathons, is admitted for a non-ST elevation myocardial infarction treated with a drug-eluting stent to the distal right coronary artery, with no other lesions found at the time of angiography. He is non-diabetic, at ideal weight, and had a low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) of 60 mg/dL at the time of admission. Which of the following represents the optimal treatment for his lipids?

A 55-year-old woman was recently diagnosed as having hypertension with documented BP of 135–140/85–90 mmHg. She is otherwise healthy without other medical problems, walks 30 min 5 days/week, and her BMI is 21 kg/m2, which represents an ideal body weight. She is exposed to secondhand tobacco at work and drinks a glass of wine each evening. Which of the following would be most effective for BP control in addition to restriction of dietary sodium?

Which of the following two factors are most likely to be associated with the development of overactive bladder (OAB) in women?

A 55 year old woman who begins taking amlodipine returns to the office complaining of lower extremity edema for the last several weeks. You explain to her that:

The nurse monitors the patient receiving spironolactone (Aldactone) for which electrolyte imbalance?

The nurse monitors the patient receiving an ACE inhibitor for which adverse effect?

A patient who is starting treatment with an alpha2 agonist should be informed of which likely side effect?

If a patient presents with fluid overload the best medication to alleviate that is?