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    Chronic Illness Epilepsy

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    Andrew McClarren October 30‚ 2014 BBH 101‚ Section 001 Chronic Illness Essay Epilepsy is a chronic condition affecting nearly 1 in 26 Americans and about 65 million people worldwide. In most cases‚ the cause is unknown but is often linked to other neurological issues (Citizens United in Research in Epilepsy). Symptoms common with epilepsy include mainly seizures as well as sleepiness‚ headaches‚ abnormal heartbeats‚ labored breathing‚ uncontrollable muscle movements and other similar indications

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    Associate Level Material Chronic Disease Risk Assessment Ovarian Cancer. A cancer that forms in tissues of the ovary (one of a pair of female reproductive glands in which the ova‚ or eggs‚ are formed). Most ovarian cancers are either ovarian epithelial carcinomas (cancer that begins in the cells on the surface of the ovary) or malignant germ cell tumors (cancer that begins in egg cells).* Ovarian Cancer is a cancerous growth arising from an ovary. The cancer most commonly forms in the lining

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    Chronic Respiratory Failure Shelby Lynch Date of Care: 03/19/2013 Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 340: Critical Care |Assessment |Medical/Nursing Diagnoses |Treatment | |Brief review of the patient |Medical Diagnoses: |Therapeutic Modalities

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    Levishon and kleven (2000) discussed that the most dramatic disease of M. gallisepticum was chronic respiratory disease in meat type birds‚ often as one of several aetiological agents in a multi-factorial disease complex. Phenotypic variation of major surface antigens occurs at high frequency which was a probable explanation for chronic infection by M. gallisepticum despite a strong immune response. Bradbury et al. (2001) mentioned that avian Mycoplasma was caused by several pathogenic Mycoplasmas

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    following is NOT a severe consequence of obesity? |A.  Cancer | | |B.  Dementia | | |C.  Premature death | | |D.  Asthma | | | | | | |4) __________ is twice as common in obese adults as in those who are at a healthy weight. |A.  Diabetes | | |B.  High blood pressure | | |C.  Sleep apnea | | |D.  Breast cancer | | | | | | |5) Associated health risks of obesity include: |A.  Gall stones and flu | | |B.  Diabetes and lung cancer | | |C.  Decreased triglycerides and arthritis | | |D.  Sleep

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    Chronic Disease Outline

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    Crohn’s Disease Outline Joshlyn A. Aday SCI/162 Sunday November 25‚ 2012 Professor Julie Moyer I. Crohn’s Disease is named after Burrill B. Crohn‚ the physician whom introduced the disease to us in 1972‚ just 40 years ago. Crohn’s disease has many names that it can be identified as‚ depending on the extent of the disease. They are as follows: Morbus Crohn’s‚ Granulomatus Enteritis‚ Regional Enteritis‚ or Terminal Ileitis. Attacks from Crohn’s Disease may in fact affect people

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    comes to chronic diseases. Since we all know that we can safely eat a candy or even as many as thousands of candies or lay on the couch watching television day after day without seeing any immediate harmful effects‚ it can be difficult to imagine that we are slowly developing chronic diseases over time. This concept of developing diseases over time from the specific lifestyle choices that each of us makes‚ is known as chronic diseases of lifestyle (CDL). It is unfortunate that these chronic diseases

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    Chronic Diseases: Heart Disease Heart disease is the most frequent condition affecting the heart‚ known as coronary artery disease. Over time‚ a buildup of cholesterol creates a substance of plaque on the inside of the coronary arteries blocking the blood flow to the heart causing it to damage the heart muscle. When a heart attack occurs‚ it creates permanent damage killing a portion of the heart. If the heart cannot effectively pump blood to the body‚ it will reduce the flow‚ and begin beating

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    Treating Chronic Diseases

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    Chronic diseases can be secondary to as persistently held conditions that do not cure easily while others are totally incurable. Some of the chronic conditions that affect human beings include cancer‚ arthritis‚ obesity‚ diabetes‚ and epilepsy. According to the world health organisation (WHO)‚ chronic diseases are the leading causes of deaths in the world. Chronic diseases effects have caused devastation not only in the health sector but the economy as a whole. As the number of people with chronic

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    Chronic and Infectious Diseases Chronic and infectious diseases are diseases life threatening. A chronic diseases are non-communicable illnesses prolonged in duration‚ do not resolve spontaneously‚ and are rarely cured completely such as heart diseasecancer‚ stroke‚ diabetes‚ and arthritis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2009). However‚ an infectious disease or communicable disease is contagious and caused by a biological agent‚ such as a virus‚ bacterium‚ or parasite also known

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