1. A 40-year-old female has a yearly physical exam. The laboratory results reveal an LDL level of 140 mg/dL. a. Describe possible initial interventions for this person.

b. The client asks the nurse, "What is cholesterol and why do I need to worry about it?" Discuss your possible answers.

c. What is the metabolic syndrome? What are the significant risks of this syndrome?

Pepsin is an enzyme in the stomach that breaks polypeptides into amino acids. pepsin functions best at a ph of around 1.5. what would be the most likely result if the ph of the stomach were increased to 5

Suggest why placing wheels under a heavy box reduces the neccessary force required to push it along at a constant speed.

To answer this question, researchers studied populations of the dusky salamander (desmognathus ochrophaeus) living on different mountain ranges in the southern appalachian mountains. the researchers tested the reproductive isolation of pairs of salamander populations by leaving one male and one female together and later checking the females for the presence of sperm. four mating combinations were tested for each pair of populations (a and b)—two within the same population (female a with male a and female b with male b) and two between populations (female a with male b and female b with male a). the proportion of successful matings for each mating combination was measured. for example, when all the matings of a particular combination were successful, the researchers gave it a value of 1; when none of the matings were successful, they gave it a value of 0. then the researchers calculated an index of reproductive isolation that ranged from 0 (no isolation) to 2 (full isolation). the reproductive isolation value for two populations is the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type within populations (aa + bb) minus the sum of the proportion of successful matings of each type between populations (ab + ba). the table provides data for the geographic distances and reproductive isolation values for 27 pairs of dusky salamander populations.