Heart disease Heart disease is very serious issue that can affect many Americans everyday. In the United States‚ more than 60 million Americans have some form of cardiovascular disease. About 2600 people die everyday of cardiovascular disease. Cancer‚ the second largest killer‚ accounts for only half as many deaths. Cardiovascular disease can take many forms‚ including high blood pressure‚ coronary artery disease‚ valvular heart disease‚ stroke‚ or rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease. Risk
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Celiac Disease Etiology: The exact cause of celiac (coeliac disease‚ celiac disease or celiac sprue) is still not fully understood. The majority of those with Celiac have one of two types of a protein called HLA-DQ‚ they will have either DQ2 or DQ8‚ which is inherited in families. The reason these genes make the person more at risk of the disease is that the receptors formed by the genes bind to gliadin peptides more tightly and are more likely to activate and initiate the autoimmune process. Celiac
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Home Care and Lung Disease According to WebMD‚ lung diseases are among the most common medical conditions on the planet with tens of millions of seniors impacted in the United States‚ alone. Lung disease is not one singular malady. It refers to any number of medical conditions that limit the amount of oxygen that is transferred to and from the lungs. The most common and well-known lung diseases are tuberculosis‚ emphysema‚ lung cancer‚ asthma‚ COPD‚ chronic bronchitis‚ and pneumonia. The majority
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Cardiovascular diseases include a wide range of heart abnormalities‚ as well as diseases of other parts of the circulatory system‚ such as the coronary arteries‚ ther cerebrovascular system‚ the aorta and pulmonary vessels‚ and the peripheral arteries and veins. Abnormalities of these structures may be either congenital or acquired over time. It has been said that cardiovascular disease kills about 954‚000 people annually‚ including more than 156‚000 people under the age of sixty-five years.
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A notifiable disease is an infectious disease that is required by law that physicians‚ clinics and hospitals report it to the local health department. Notifiable diseases must be reported right after they are diagnosed by a doctor‚ laboratory‚ or hospital. There is a list of notifiable diseases that the Center for Control Disease (CDC) provides to each local health department. Notification is required for epidemiological purposes. While there are many providers who are well aware of reporting such
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Parkinson Disease Parkinson disease is a long-term (chronic) condition that gets worse over time (progressive). Parkinson disease limits your ability to control your movements and move your body normally. This condition is a type of movement disorder. Parkinson disease affects each person differently. The condition can range from mild to severe. Parkinson’s disease tends to progress slowly over several years. CAUSES Parkinson disease results from a loss of brain cells (neurons) in a specific
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Disease Trends and the Delivery of Healthcare Services Kathryn Tolliver-Jackson HCA/240 August 9‚ 2013 Jerrica Ampadu Demographics and disease trends are likely to influence health care delivery services in the future for many reasons. For example‚ it could be because of age‚ obesity‚ or the future. During this essay I will be discussing how age composition of the U.S population and how it will change within the next twenty years‚ I will identify factors that support this trend‚ how obesity
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Pulmonary disease or lung disease is any disease or disorder that occurs in the lungs or that causes the lungs or that causes the lungs not to work correctly. Some diseases or disorders that affect the lungs are Pneumothrax‚ Pneumonia‚ Hemothorax‚ and Infectious Mononucleosis: Epstein - Barr virus Infection. There are many signs‚ symptoms‚ treatments and medications for Pulmonary diseases. Symptoms and signs for Pneumothorax varies from patient to patient but usually includes Sudden and sharp
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Rhesus disease is an infant wellbeing condition that is brought on by an incompatibility between the mother’s blood classification and the baby. Here’s the significance: Most individuals have Rh-positive blood‚ implying that they create an Rh protein on the surface of their red platelets. Also called erythroblastosis fatalism during pregnancy. In the newborn‚ the resulting condition is called hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). Be that as it may‚ around 15 percent of Caucasian ladies and around
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Crohn’s disease is one of the fastest growing intestinal disease in the United States. You may ask‚ “who can get Crohn’s disease?”. Anyone can get Crohn’s disease but it is more common for a woman rather than a man to get it. It has affected more than five hundred thousand people in the United States alone‚ that is about one for every seven people in the United States. Crohn’s has common symptoms of a cold such as abdominal pains‚ fever‚ and diarrhea‚ it also has many more symptoms. Crohn’s can affect
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