Chronic Disease Risk Assessment Diabetes is a lifelong disease in which they are high levels of sugar in the blood. The body does not produce enough insulin and a person with diabetes has high blood sugar. Type one diabetes requires a person to inject insulin. Some symptoms of diabetes are blurred vision excess thirst fatigue frequent urination. There are two types of diabetes type one and type two. It is a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke‚ and the second leading cause of blindness
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Shay Ward Purdue University Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic lung disease that encompasses a group of lung conditions that causes structural changes of the airways and alveoli‚ the dysfunction of cilia and an inflammatory response. It is a progressive disease that symptoms worsen over time and is characterized by an accelerated decline in lung function. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema
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Definition of multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the central nervous system including the brain‚ spinal cord‚ and optic nerves. The central nervous system is made up of nerve cells that send signals to each other. Each nerve cell is covered with a protective lining called myelin which acts like insulation on an electrical wire. It allows signals to pass between nerve cells at high speed. In multiple sclerosis‚ disease activity damages the myelin in a process called "demyelination"
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention list Nephritis‚ Nephrotic Syndrome‚ and Nephrosis as number nine in the top ten leading causes of death among Hispanic Americans (Hispanic or Latino Populations‚ 2015). Each of these conditions is a type of kidney disease in which the kidneys cannot effectively filter wastes from the blood. Chronic Kidney Disease‚ or CKD‚ can lead to many severe health problems. Because the kidneys filter the blood‚ CKD can cause the body to retain fluid that can lead
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The Economics of End Stage Renal Disease Tammy Reed Walden University NURS 6050: Policy and Advocacy for Improving Population Health April 6‚ 2013 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is diagnosed by screening people who are at risk for kidney problems‚ people with hypertension‚ diabetes or family with chronic kidney disease. There are five stages of chronic kidney disease‚ with stage one being the mildest and usually causing few symptoms and stage five being a serious illness with short life
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In the case of chronic diseases‚ it is hypothesized that the abundance of food and our relative access to it has greatly contributed to the prevalence of many of the diseases we see today. Stated differently‚ our social transition from a hunter-gatherer based lifestyle to a more sedentary and consumer approach has removed certain biological pressures
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Chronic Disease Risk Assessment Diabetes is a chronic lifelong disease where there are high traces of sugar in the blood. A diabetic individuals pancreas secrets an insufficient amount of insulin or does not use the insulin efficiently. Insulin is a hormone made in the pancreas that enables the body to use glucose for energy. Diabetes is caused by too little insulin‚ resistance to insulin or both. Diabetes is the most common disorder of the human hormone system; there are three forms of diabetes
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Chronic Diseases: Cervical Cancer Every year about 12‚000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer‚ that’s 33 women a day. Cervical cancer is a type of cancer that forms in the tissues of the cervix. This type of cancer is a slow growing cancer and can be hard to diagnose because sometimes women do not have any symptoms. Even though women sometimes do not show or have symptoms of cervical cancer it can be found with a regular Pap test; women should
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Description of the disease. The disease that I did my risk assessment on was bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is when cells in the urinary bladder lining starts to divide uncontrollably and are no longer able to control their growth. A mass of cells form from an abnormal growth causing tumors. According to the American Cancer Society or (ACS) bladder cancer is the 6th most common cancer in the United States. They approximate that over 54‚300 people will be diagnosed in 2014 and cause more than 12
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Chronic Disease Outline SCI/162 January 8‚ 2012 Adriana Batista Outline I. Introduction II. Causes and Risk Factors A. Environmental/Chemical B. Food C. Hereditary III. Diagnosis Information A. Fecal Occult‚ Blood Test B. X-Ray‚ Mammogram‚ Colonoscopy C. Pap Smear IV. Treatment A. Surgery B. Radiation C. Chemotherapy V. Prevention
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