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    Cardiovascular Diseases

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    Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular disease is defined as a disease that affects any area of the cardiovascular system‚ including the heart and blood vessels‚ and covers a range of diseases such as arteriosclerosis‚ atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Diet plays a vital part in the prevention and control of these diseases however other manageable factors such as smoking and physical inactivity also contribute to the diseases if not controlled correctly. However corrective action or

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    Huntington Disease

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    Huntington disease Email this page to a friendShare on facebookShare on twitterBookmark & SharePrinter-friendly version Huntington disease is a disorder in which nerve cells in certain parts of the brain waste away‚ or degenerate. The disease is passed down through families. Causes Huntington disease is caused by a genetic defect on chromosome 4. The defect causes a part of DNA‚ called a CAG repeat‚ to occur many more times than it is supposed to. Normally‚ this section of DNA is repeated 10

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    Human Disease

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    Human Disease Several scientific terms are relatively easy to define‚ others tend to be more difficult; “health” and “disease” fall under the latter category. Many suggest that “disease” is merely a disorder of a system’s normal functions while “health” is the absence of disease. On the other hand‚ could a person whose bodily systems are functioning properly but who is unhappy or depressed be considered healthy? Can an alcoholic or drug-addict whose habit has not as yet caused any physical harm

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    Respiratory Diseases

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    Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompasses pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms‚ and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract‚ trachea‚ bronchi‚ bronchioles‚ alveoli‚ pleura and pleural cavity‚ and the nerves and muscles of breathing. Respiratory diseases range from mild and self-limiting‚ such as the common cold‚ to life-threatening entities like bacterial pneumonia‚ pulmonary embolism‚ and lung cancer

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    The diseases of Hunger.

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    Diseases that affect humans are many times categorized into either a male disease or a female disease. In other words‚ the public views the disease as being usually carried by males or by females. Anorexia and bulimia are almost always classified as a disease that affects mostly females. These diseases may also be classified into different categories depending on what their cause is thought to be. Maggie Helwig‚ author of the short story "Hunger‚" believes that "anorexia and bulimia are particularly

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    Rice Diseases

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    Bakanae disease in Rice Causal agent;- Gibberella fujikuroi Host plant ;- Maize (zea mays)‚Rice (Oryza sataiva)‚Sorghum (Sorghum spp)‚sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum). Alternate hosts include Leucaena leucocephala‚ Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato)‚ Musa sp. (banana) and Vigna unguiculata (cowpea). In Japan‚ the pathogen has been found on Panicum miliaceum. Distribution;- The pathogen is widespread in all rice-growing countries of the world. It has never been recorded on rice within the rice-growing

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    Legionnaires Disease

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    Legionnaires’ Disease is pneumonia that’s caused by bacteria (Center For Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2015). The name of the bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s is Legionella pneumophila. Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs; this specific type of pneumonia is serious and can threaten one’s life. The body system that is affected is the respiratory system. Another body system that can be affected is the digestive system. This disease can lead to complications such as respiratory failure‚ septic

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    Cardiovascular Disease

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    Cardiovascular disease is a general name for a wide variety of diseases‚ disorders and conditions that affect the heart and sometimes the blood vessels as well. Risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease include having hypertension‚ diabetes‚ high cholesterol‚ obesity‚ and a sedentary lifestyle. Other risk factors include being of African-American ancestry‚ male‚ drinking excessive amounts of alcohol‚ having a lot of long-term stress‚ smoking and having a family history of a heart attack

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    Communicable Disease

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    Communicable Disease HCS 457 June 4‚ 2012 Communicable Disease A communicable disease is a bacteria or virus that can is transferred from person to person‚ or from animals or the physical environment to individuals by a variety of ways. For example air and water‚ to contaminated articles or fomites‚ insect and animal bites (Reigelman‚ p. 210‚ 2011). The spreading of a communicable disease is easily transferred and can range from a common cold to anthrax making the disease contagious. I

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    Huntington's Disease

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    Huntington’s Disease Definition- Huntington’s Disease is an inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. Classification- This disease affects the musculoskeletal system due to loss of brain cells that control the initiation‚ coordination and fluidity of movement. This disease also affects the digestive system due to the loss of muscle control affects chewing and swallowing. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association notes that people with Huntington

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