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    Dental Care: Prolonged Baby Bottle Feeding: A Health Risk Factor Abstract Deysi is a 2-year-old girl who lives with her parents in a one-bedroom apartment. Her mother and father work outside of the home‚ approximately 10 hours/day. Child care is provided by a network of women who include licensed home-based providers and a variety of friends and extended family members. On most evenings‚ Deysi’s father picks her up from the child care site and gives her a fresh bottle of chocolate-flavored

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    Crohns Disease

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    A Short Summary of Crohn’s Disease (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) Epidemiology • Age of onset: 15-30 and 60-80 • Equal incidence between males and females • Jewish>White Caucasian>African Americans>Hispanic>Asians • Ashkenazi Jews risk is 2x that of an Israeli born Jew. • Urban areas>Rural areas • High socioeconomic > low socioeconomic classes Causes 1. Immune mediated • Pro-inflammatory>Anti-inflammatory • T-helper cells activation through cytokines to promote fibrinogenesis

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    Center for Disease Control

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    appropriations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is example of a government run agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is one of the most important health agencies in the world. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a federal government run agency that relies on stakeholders and partners to offer important insight in planning and evaluating‚ and contributions in helping Americans live long‚ healthy‚ and satisfying lives. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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    Crohn's Disease

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    Crohn ’s disease is named after Burrill B. Crohn‚ the physician who described the disease in a paper written in 1972. Crohn ’s disease can also be referred to as Morbus Crohn ’s‚ Granulomatous Enteritis‚ Regional Enteritis‚ or Terminal Ileitis. Attacks of Crohn ’s disease may affect patients in their teens or early twenties‚ and tend to recur throughout the individual ’s life. The History of Crohn ’s Disease Crohn ’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease of an undetermined cause that afflicts

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    Periodontal Disease

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    English 102 Ms. Vatcher‚ MA 1 October 2002 Why Periodontal Disease Should be a Concern to All. Periodontal disease is more commonly known as gum disease or gingivitis. This infection is serious enough‚ that it can lead to tooth loss if left untreated. This chronic infection starts around the tooth and it affects the supporting bone and gums. Periodontal disease can affect anywhere from one tooth to all thirty-two teeth. The disease pathology starts with the plaque that builds up on your teeth

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    Celiac Disease

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    containing products that people without coleiac disease‚ take for granted. Although deemed as normal for most‚ these simple foods are not as nutritious or beneficial to people who have Coeliac disease. Coeliac disease pronounced (see-liac) is intolerance to wheat products‚ whereby gluten fights against the immune system causing damage to the lining of the intestines. According to (Coeliac UK 2001)‚ 125‚000 in the UK are faced with this condition. The disease is fatal in most cases and can have an

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    Risks Of Preeclampsia

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    7. What are the risks to the fetus if this condition is left untreated? If preeclampsia-eclampsia is left untreated‚ the fetus is at risk of: Placental deterioration and insufficiency: This would eventually cause the mother to provide a decreased and inadequate amount of nutrients to the fetus Hypoxia: Decreasing the amount of oxygen the fetus receives Intrauterine growth retardation: Affecting the growth of the fetus‚ causing abnormalities and deformities 8. What are the maternal sequelae

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    Graves Disease

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    affecting the immune system Graves Disease When you think about diseases and disorders that can attack the immune system one of the first ones that might pop into your mind is Graves’ disease. You may not know what it is or how it effects the immune system but you have heard about it‚ after reading this paper you will have a better understanding of the disease and how it affects your body and your everyday life along with how to manage the disease. Graves’ disease is an immune system disorder that

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    Article on Risk Management

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    DEFINITIONS OF RISK Brian A. Burt‚ BDS‚ MPH‚ PhD Correpondence: Dr. Brian A. Burt Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health University of Michigan 109 Observatory Street Ann Arbor‚ MI 48109-2029 Phone: 734-764-5478 Fax: 734-764-3192 E-mail: bburt@umich.edu Reprints will not be available. 2 Abstract: Risk-related terms such as risk factor‚ modifiable risk factor‚ demographic risk factorrisk indicator‚ determinant‚ and risk marker are often not well defined in the literature. This short

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    Inflammatory Bowel Disease/ Crohn’s Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic disorders that cause inflammation or ulceration in the small and large intestines. Most often IBD is classified as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease but may be referred to as colitis‚ enteritis‚ ileitis‚ and proctitis. Ulcerative colitis causes ulceration and inflammation of the inner lining of a couple of really bad places‚ while Crohn’s disease is an inflammation that extends into the deeper

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