likely to decrease the following health issues‚ like heart disease and stroke. Heart disease has controllable risk factors like‚ hypertension‚ high cholesterol‚ diabetes tobacco use‚ obesity and poor diet. It is important for one to address these risks early because only then he or she can prevent the problems of cardiovascular disease. A poor diet that consists of high fat‚ high cholesterol and excess salt can add to causes for heart disease. The chemicals in cigarettes harm ones’ blood cells‚ and
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Is obesity a disease? Thirty five percent of people believe that obesity is a disease‚ but I believe that it is a life choice. The reason I believe that obesity is a life choice is because there are many ways to avoid obesity; getting plenty of exercise‚ eating right‚ and there are surgeries that can be performed to counter obesity and be healthy. Thirty eight of Americans are obese‚ due to that percentage‚ most doctors don’t consider being skinny healthy and believe that you
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Contents Oncogene An oncogene is a kind of abnormal gene that predisposes cells to develop into cancers. Unlike normal genes‚ which can be turned off after being turned on‚ oncogenes are altered in a way that keeps them stuck in a state of constant activity. That uninterrupted action helps drive the uncontrolled growth that underlies tumors. Oncogenes can be turned on by inherited changes - ones that are passed down from parent to child - or by cancer-promoting agents that
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Monday February 24 of 2014 The Huntington’s disease The issues involving Huntingtons disease has been a popular topic amongst scholars for many years. It has recently come to my attention that not enough people understand how Huntingtons disease has been up to our lives. Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a dominant genetic disorder‚ is inherited. affects muscles coordination and leads to cognitive decline and psychiatric problems. Symptoms of Huntingtons disease include uncontrolled movements‚ swings‚
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Lifestyle Diseases There are many diseases that contribute immensely to the burden placed on a person‚ a family‚ a society and a country‚ and despite advances in medicine‚ the number of people with such diseases continues to increase with people dying younger. In a newspaper article dated back two years stated that in June the previous year‚ Pacific health ministers had declared a non-communicable disease (NCD) crisis because it was revealed that the Pacific was breeding a generation of obese children
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is a disease that affects one in three members of the American population. Obesity is when excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health‚ leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems. People are considered obese when their body mass index (BMI)‚ a measurement obtained by dividing a person’s weight in kilograms by the square of the person’s height in meters exceeds 30 kg/m2. Obesity increases the likelihood of several diseases particularly
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Clinical features and diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis in children INTRODUCTION — Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. DKA can less commonly occur in children with type 2 diabetes mellitus [1‚2]. (See "Classification of diabetes mellitus and genetic diabetic syndromes".) In recent years‚ the incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus have increased across all ethnic groups. This has been coupled with an
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Final Draft Two Chronic Diseases Cancer and Heart Disease continue to be top killers in America‚ even though there is so much information to educate us on how to recognize them or even prevent them altogether. We have so many resources available to teach us how to keep our bodies free from disease and also how to catch diseases in their early stages. There are lifestyle changes that can be made‚ symptoms that can help diagnose the chronic condition‚ and treatments that may help control or
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1. Think about a real world: Diagnosis Congestive heart failure (CHF)‚ non compliance with daily weight or diet/situation. Address using an independent or related samples t test. 2. Identify the independent (grouping) and dependant (response) variables important to study 3. Explain whether an independent sample or related sample t test is appropriate and why 4. Generate a hypothesis‚ including null and alternative hypothesis 5. Describe what information the effect size will tell you and what
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systems in many countries and provinces. This basically ignored the downstream effect of improved water supply‚ that of increased discharges into rivers or aquifers. Two reasons appear to be the major cause for that: firstly‚ wastewater collection and treatment is costly and their benefit often hard to show; and secondly‚ even if low-cost solutions are being implemented many projects fail to deliver the expected outcome. Without pretending to reflect the complexity of sanitation projects three principal
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