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    Chronic Kidney Disease BIO 105‚ sec M02 Prof. Palanca Ayo Powell (Term Paper) 3/25/12 The Kidney is one of the most important organs in the human body. Its primary function is the removal of waste & toxins from the blood stream. So if the kidney stopped working correctly and is no longer able to properly function that would lead to serious problems. Blood is no longer being cleaned. The waste and the toxins aren’t being removed. Instead it’s all building up in the blood stream causing

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    likely to decrease the following health issues‚ like heart disease and stroke. Heart disease has controllable risk factors like‚ hypertension‚ high cholesterol‚ diabetes tobacco use‚ obesity and poor diet. It is important for one to address these risks early because only then he or she can prevent the problems of cardiovascular disease. A poor diet that consists of high fat‚ high cholesterol and excess salt can add to causes for heart disease. The chemicals in cigarettes harm ones’ blood cells‚ and

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    Cardiovascular disease is a general name for a wide variety of diseases‚ disorders and conditions that affect the heart and sometimes the blood vessels as well. Risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease include having hypertension‚ diabetes‚ high cholesterol‚ obesity‚ and a sedentary lifestyle. Other risk factors include being of African-American ancestry‚ male‚ drinking excessive amounts of alcohol‚ having a lot of long-term stress‚ smoking and having a family history of a heart attack

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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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    kidney disease? Not everyone with diabetes develops kidney disease. Factors that can influence kidney disease development include genetics‚ blood sugar control‚ and blood pressure. The better a person keeps diabetes and blood pressure under control‚ the lower the chance of getting kidney disease. What are the symptoms? The kidneys work hard to make up for the failing capillaries so kidney disease produces no symptoms until almost all function is gone. Also‚ the symptoms of kidney disease are not

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    Living in the Shadow of Heart Disease In the United States‚ every year more than 1 million Americans suffer from a heart attack. This number although it may not seem like a lot‚ is indeed quite high. Heart disease is a major killer that can in fact be controlled. If more people would watch what they eat‚ do simple exercises‚ and restrict physically damaging activities‚ such as smoking‚ they could lower their risk of a heart attack or heart disease. Many people do things that short term‚ have little

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    HEART DISEASE NOTES Video was made outside of Boston in Framingham. Studies started in 1948. Heart disease is # 1 killer in U.S. It starts squeezing your heart‚ and you feel a sharp point. 1/2 the people in the U.S. die with it‚ and 80% die from it. More men have it and more women die from it. Every minute heart disease kills someone in the U.S. Half the deaths in the U.S. population die by heart disease. Get tightness in the throat. Cholesterol is most deadly. Smoking hardens the arteries. High

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    also our time of dying. Strange that no matter how advanced our society has become‚ our nation ’s health hasn ’t caught up. After all‚ heart disease‚ also known as cardiovascular disease‚ is our nation ’s number one killer (Preventive Magazine Health Books p. 153). <br><br>The most common‚ and most preventable‚ heart disease of all is coronary artery disease. This is caused when blockages develop in the blood vessels that provide oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle. A more general term for any impairment

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    Addrisa Ankrah 10/16/13 English 109 Informative Speech Chronic Kidney Failure occurs when a disease or disorder damages the kidneys so that they no longer adequately remove fluids and wastes from the body or maintain proper levels of kidney-regulated chemicals in the bloodstream. Chronic Kidney Failure affects over 250‚000 Americans annually. The rate for CKD is three times higher in African Americans than Caucasians. Some people do not know they are at risk. Kidney Failure it

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    How diseases affect the lives of humans A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors‚ Pathogens such as infectious disease‚ or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions‚ such as autoimmune diseases. In humans‚ "disease" is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain‚ dysfunction‚ distress‚ social problems‚ or death to the

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