PREVALENCE OF CHRONIC DISEASES AMONG THE AGED IN CAPE COAST METROPOLITAN OVER LAST FOUR YEARS Introduction This paper charts a brief history of Ghana’s chronic disease burden over the last five years‚ focusing on prevalence‚ risk and illness implications in relation to aging. Two arguments are made. First‚ chronic diseases in Ghana constitute public health and developmental challenges‚ requiring the same intellectual and financial commitments afforded to communicable and infectious diseases. Information
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INTRODUCTION : I hereby present to you a case study on pulmonary embolism( PE)‚ in which includes details of the patient ‚ current problems and management taken place while caring for the patient . Present compalints: A 65 year old female with chest pain‚ acute shortness of breath‚ cough and swelling on the surgical limb. Detail history of presenting complaints: Mrs Blue‚ a 65 year old female who presents with chest pain and shortness of breath‚ underwent bilateral total knee replacement
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Cases of obesity and diabetes are exploding‚ especially amongst our younger generation. Cancer‚ heart disease and stroke are the county’s three leading causes of death‚ yet billions of money are spent to cure these diseases. One in three of us suffer from chronic diseases. Could there be a solution to this epidemic? Forks over Knives takes us through a health-related research about chronic diseases by two researchers‚ Dr. T. Colin Campbell‚ a nutritional scientist from Cornell university‚ and Dr. Caldwell
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ETHNIC mINORTIY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE b00237004 SPORT & EXERCISE SCIENCE YEAR 3 Exercise & Chronic Disease School of Engineering and Science University of the West of Scotland Month Year Table of Contents Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………….……ii List of Tables and Figures…………………………………………………………...………iii 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………….…………..1
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AbstractBackground pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) are fatal‚ no curable‚ but treatable diseases that strongly affect the patients. Objective. To decribe patient’s experience of information relating to PAH or CTEPH. Methods. A qualitative method using content analysis was applied. Seventeen patients (thirteen women an four men) aged 28-73 years from a regional PAH center were individually interviewed. Results. Three categories that
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Obstructive sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder that affects breathing during sleep. It is a highly spread‚ but is often an unrecognized disease triggered by several risk factors including age‚ sex‚ weight‚ hypertension‚ diabetes‚ and congenital deformities. Obstructive sleep apnea is diagnosed by monitoring the breathing of the person while sleeping. This disease has many effects on the individual itself and on the community. Moreover‚ obstructive sleep apnea affects pregnant women due to physiological
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Associate Level Material Chronic Disease Risk Assessment Ovarian Cancer. A cancer that forms in tissues of the ovary (one of a pair of female reproductive glands in which the ova‚ or eggs‚ are formed). Most ovarian cancers are either ovarian epithelial carcinomas (cancer that begins in the cells on the surface of the ovary) or malignant germ cell tumors (cancer that begins in egg cells).* Ovarian Cancer is a cancerous growth arising from an ovary. The cancer most commonly forms in the lining
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HOW DOES DISEASE AFFECT THE LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION? * THE KIDNEY There are two kidneys‚ each about the size of a fist‚ located on either side of the spine at the lowest level of the rib cage. Each kidney contains up to a million functioning units called nephrons. A nephron consists of a filtering unit of tiny blood vessels called a glomerulus attached to a tubule. When blood enters the glomerulus‚ it is filtered and the remaining fluid then passes along the tubule. In the tubule‚ chemicals and
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Name of Pathology: Pulmonary Embolism Definition/Description/Characteristics: Before I get started explaining what a pulmonary embolism is‚ I am going to say that a pulmonary embolism is a part of group of problems all known as venous thromboembolism (VTE). Venous refers to veins‚ while thrombus is the blockage of blood vessel and when the blockage breaks off and travels‚ is called an embolism. A pulmonary embolism is usually a clot that was originally from a deep vein thrombosis in the legs or
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CHAPTER I Introduction Background and Rationale of the Study Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that primarily affects the lung parenchyma caused by slow-growing bacteria that resembles a fungus. It is usually spread from person to person by droplet nuclei through the air. The lung is the usual infection site but may also be transmitted to other parts of the body‚ including the meninges‚ kidneys‚ bones‚ and lymph nodes. The primary infectious agent‚ Mycobacterium tuberculosis‚is an
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