8 Most Common College Diseases College students are young‚ lively and generally healthy individuals‚ but just like any population‚ they are prone tocertain health problems. Not only do college students have some of the worst eating‚ exercising and sleeping habits‚they also have to deal with stress from school‚ relationships and job hunting that takes a major toll on their health.Here are the 8 most common college diseases: 1. Depression : Depression is a growing issue that even college campuses
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Degenerative Diseases and Their Effects There are many degenerative diseases that can affect everyday life for millions of individuals. There are many causes‚ symptoms‚ risk factors‚ complications‚ and most important‚ ways to prevent them from happening to you. Take an 84-year-old thin‚ small boned‚ white‚ female‚ for example. The effects of osteoporosis‚ osteoarthritis‚ and muscular atrophy could be highly detrimental for this individual. Osteoporosis is a disease that occurs when the creation
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Intro Alzheimer’s Disease is one of the leading causes of premature dementia in today’s world. The emotional effects of this progressive brain deterioration disease can be detrimental to the individual with the disease‚ family members‚ friends‚ and society. This disease causes the individual to slowly lose their memory‚ and treatment for this condition does not specifically stop the destruction and damage that is being done to the neurons‚ it only subsides short term symptoms for durations of time
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A Disease of the Integumentary System September 28‚ 2011 Abstract There are many diseases that affect the Integumentary system‚ due in some part to the fact that it contains the largest organ in the human body‚ which is the skin. The some of these diseases can be seen as rashes‚ dark spots‚ or just patches of itchy areas. The disease that will be discussed in throughout this paper is called Alopecia Areata. One will cover areas such as a description of the disease‚ as well as the causes‚
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disaster in European history. The Black Death is the nickname of the disease “Yersinia Pestis” that hit the European world in the 1340 CE. This disease wiped out 80 million people total. The devastation of this disease makes the Black Death the most significant event that occurred in the later medieval period. The Black Death is the most significant event because of the devastating nature of the disease and the impact that the disease had on the European people’s mindsets. There are many nicknames
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Maycomb’s ‘Unusual’ Disease In the fictional town of Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ the residents seem to have all been infected by the same disease. Harper Lee‚ the author of the very famous novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ has used several ways of portraying this idea and is able to convince readers that her characters really do have some sort of ‘illness‚’ an illness which affects people’s thoughts on how others should be treated. The novel highlights several issues including racism‚ childhood‚ injustice and
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States (US) is heart disease; it is also the leading cause of disability among women. Currently‚ “8 million women in the US are living with heart disease; 35‚000 are under the age of 65” (Women’s Heart Foundation‚ 2011). Among American women in 2005 over 36 million were age 55 or older increasing their risk of coronary heart disease (Garvin‚ Moser‚ Riegel‚ McKinley‚ Doering‚ & An‚ 2003). . Coronary heart disease claims the lives of over 200‚000 females yearly. The disease more significantly impacts
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of BSE. The symptoms of this disease are similar to those in cattle. People with vCJD begin to lose their memory‚ and are unable to concentrate. They may experience a change in personality‚ emotional disturbance‚ or even madness (basically tired and crazy). The incubation period of this disease is from years to decades. The average age of death with classic CJD is 68 years. However‚ the average age of death with vCJD is 28 years. When the first signs of the disease surface‚ the infected person
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Alzheimer ’s disease Wendy M Tolliver PSY/340 November 28‚ 2011 Melynda Marchi Alzheimer Disease Alzheimer ’s disease received its name from Dr. Alois Alzheimer (a German physician). Dr. Alzheimer detected bizarre changes in the brain tissue of a woman who had died (in 1906) of a bizarre mental illness. He notices numerous abnormal clumps (amyloid plaques) and twisted bundles of fibers (neurofibrillary tangles). Scientist of today has discovered the plaques and tangles in the brain are recognized
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WORKSHEET FOR INFECTIOUS AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES Fill-in the letter corresponding to the disease which manifests the stated characteristics: A. Varicella ____Major risk for fetus: demise‚ IUGR‚ cardiac‚ eye and ear defects. B. Coxsackie ____Mumps‚ with complications of orchitis‚ unilateral deafness C. Diptheria ____A gram positive diplococcus causes pneumonia‚ OM‚bacteremia & meningigits. D. Erythema Infectiousum ____Whooping cough; paroxysmal cough‚ esp nocturnal
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