Statistics make the world go round‚ literally. A certain population or ethnicity and their disease trends can really have an effect on what can happen in the future for our healthcare systems. Demographics and Disease trends can go hand in hand with one another because disease trends are so constant and unnoticeable that it continues daily‚ therefore having a particular group being affected by the same disease. Some people do not believe it‚ but all you have to do is look at the statistics and you
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The liver converts excess protein into urea. The kidneys remove unwanted substances such as urea‚ excess water and salt. © Boardworks Ltd 2009 What is urea? Excess amino acids in the body are broken down by the liver‚ producing a waste substance called urea. This process is important because it converts toxic ammonia to urea‚ which is done using carbon dioxide. Once formed‚ urea is transported by the circulatory system to the kidneys. The kidneys filter the blood‚ removing urea and excess water
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Primary functions of the kidney: — Maintaining homeostasis through the regulation of fluid and electrolytes and removing wastes through the formation of urine. ž Other important functions: — Regulation of acid-base balance — Control of blood pressure — Renal clearance — Regulation of RBC production — Synthesizing vitamin D to the active form — Secreting prostaglandins — Regulating calcium and phosphorus balance. Nephron ž Each kidney has about 1 million
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HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS is a worldwide phenomenon that has affected many people and killed millions of others over time because of it. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS over a period of time‚ HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS stands for Auto immune deficiency syndrome. A sexually transmitted disease that has affected many people and altered many lives and a disease that I hope one day can have a cure to help those many people still living today that live with either of these diseases
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Kidneys * Kidneys maintain the purity and constancy of our in internal fluids. Every day‚ the kidneys filter gallons of fluid from the bloodstream. They then process this filtrate‚ allowing wastes and excess ions to leave the body in urine while returning needed substances to the blood in just the right proportions. Kidneys also regulate the blood’s volume and chemical makeup so that the proper balance between water and salts and between acids and bases is maintained. * The Kidneys alone
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Chronic Kidney Failure Sharvette Walker Rasmussen College Author Note This Annotated Bibliography is being submitted on June 14‚ 2015‚ for Andrea Wochenske M232/MEA2203 Section 11 Pathophysiology- 2015 Spring Quarter course. RENAL CALCULI TELEVISION BROADCAST 1. (2013‚ September 9). Kidney stones serious for women with other conditions Read more: http://www.wbaltv.com/health/kidney-stones-serious-for-women-with-other-conditions/21754828#ixzz3CZjaBA6O. Retrieved from [Television broadcast].
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symptomfind.com/health/preventing-kidney-stones/ http://www.medicinenet.com/polycystic_kidney_disease/page2.htm 10 Important Tips For Preventing Kidney Stones By MaryAnn DePietroΙ March 13‚ 2012 AA Kidney stones are hard‚ small masses‚ which can develop inside the kidneys. Risk factors include family history‚ dehydration‚ obesity‚ taking certain types of medications and eating a diet high in protein and salt. Stones can become very painful as they travel from the kidney and move into the ureter. In
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Kidneys for sale: poor Iranians compete to sell their organs In the only country where the organ trade is legal‚ the streets near hospitals have been turned into a ’kidney eBay’ Would-be sellers advertise their kidneys by writing their blood type and phone number on posters or walls of the street close to several of Tehran’s major hospitals. Photograph: Torab Sinapour for the Guardian Marzieh’s biggest challenge in life is to come up with money for her daughter’s wedding. In Persian custom‚ it
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Chronic Kidney Disease Eileen Daza-Gallego The Center for Allied Health Nursing Education Abstract An estimated 26 million adults in the United States have Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Persons with CKD are unlikely to be aware of their disease and seek appropriate treatment before it is too late. Among those that have the disease‚ a large majority of them are obese and are suffering from diabetes or hypertension or both. The majority of the individuals with hypertension and/or diabetes will
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Should it be legal to buy a kidney? Kidneys are organs in the body‚ shaped like beans which are almost as big as a persons fist. Every person has two kidney’s‚ one near the middle of the back‚ below the rib cage and the other on each side of the back spine. The kidney’s job is to clear waste from the bodies blood and use the extra water and waste to turn to urine‚ releasing it from the ureters through urination. Each day‚ the kidney cleans around two-hundred quarts of blood‚ finally gathering two
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