CHRONIC DISEASES A chronic disease is an illness that is prolonged in duration‚ does not spontaneously resolve‚ and is usually not cured completely. Examples of chronic diseases are rheumatoid arthritis‚ lung cancer‚ and heart disease. Heart disease is an illness that involves the blockage or narrowing of the blood vessels. It is the leading cause of death in the US with approximately 81.1 million people‚ or one in every three adults living with heart disease. The illness causes swelling in feet
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Cancer Prevention Preventing cancer in oneself really varies from depending on the person and the family. A person can become more susceptible to getting cancer based on different risk factors‚ some which are controllable and others which are not. These risk factors include age‚ sex‚ environment‚ lifestyle‚ and heredity. In my family‚ and in myself‚ there are many things that we can make ourselves aware of and do in order to prevent cancer. Since age and sex are out of my control‚ there’s nothing
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Peripheral Arterial Disease Peripheral Arterial Disease April 22‚ 2010 ME 1352 Abstract Peripheral Arterial Disease is a common secondary disease that follows Atherosclerosis. Once so much plaque builds up in the arteries‚ they become block the blood flow. P.A.D. usually affects the lower extremities and can cause intermittent claudication and‚ if severe enough‚ gangrene. Many people live with atherosclerosis and P.A.D. and show no symptoms. There are numerous prevention methods for P.A
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Diabetes Mellitus By Shane O’Shaughnessy Contents Page 1: Description of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Page 2: Type 1 Diabetes Page 3: Symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes Page 4: Type 2 Diabetes and Symptoms Page 5: Aims of Treatment Page 6: Medication What is diabetes mellitus? The term ‘diabetes’ means excessive urination and the word ‘mellitus’ means honey. Diabetes mellitus is a lifelong condition caused by a lack‚ or insufficiency of insulin. Insulin is a hormone – a substance
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Circulatory Diseases Directions: Complete the T-Chart Below. Select 10 diseases from this website: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/organ/circulatory_system.htm List the disease‚ and write a short summary of what the disease entails. Circulatory Disease Disease Description • Behcet’s Disease: A type of vasculitis in which there is chronic inflammation of the blood vessels in the body. This can lead to aneurysms in the lungs‚ blindness‚ and meningitis. • Moyamoya
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Suicide Prevention is Impossible. Discuss. | | | Introduction Suicide is a leading worldwide cause of death that claims around 1 million lives each year. Its causes are often shrouded in myth and avoidance‚ due to the sensitive nature of the topic. It leaves loved ones with more long-lasting feelings of guilt‚ puzzlement‚ shame and distress than any other form of death‚ (Gallo &Pfeiffer‚ 2003) and affects more people than we‚ perhaps realise. Despite the volume of people affected
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Showing cardiovascular and ventilatory responses at rest and during exercise Abstract Objective: The objective of this experiment is to analyse how the cardiovascular and respiratory parameters are affected by steady state exercise. Method: The experiment was split into two stages‚ rest and exercise. A spirometer‚ an ECG‚ a Douglas bag and a blood pressure monitor were used at rest on the subject. In the exercise phase a Douglas bag and the blood pressure monitor were used to measure the subject’s
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Denita LaRock HCA/240 January 21‚ 2013 Crohn’s Disease Nakki Price Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that affects the bowel tissues. The inflammation begins in the lining of the digestive tract‚ and may spread into the layers of the bowel tissue. This disease causes severe diarrhea‚ abdominal pain‚ and malnutrition. Other symptoms are ulcers‚ fever‚ weight loss and reduced appetite. Abdominal pain‚ blood in stool‚ and unexplained diarrhea or fever lasting more than two days
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Fire prevention programs and education are an important part of keeping a community safe. The more educational opportunities that are available the better the chances are that there will be less accidental fires or lives lost in a community. While growing up not all children are raised the same way and this can lead to certain deficiencies in a variety of areas of education. Many parents may not think to education their children about fire safety or give them any insight into the importance of fire
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This experiment‚ Cardiovascular Fitness‚ produced the results of the fitness and fitness index of an athlete versus a non- athlete. To do so both the athlete and non-athlete had to preform the step test in which they stepped up and down the stairs at the same pace for the same duration of time. The hypothesis made by my group was that the athlete would have a lower heart-rate and better fitness index then the non-athlete. We guessed this base on the fact that many youth in America who aren’t athletes
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