Heart Disease • What is Heart Disease? Heart disease is any disorder which affects the heart. Almost half of heart diseases are from coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease is responsible for 82‚000 deaths in the UK each year – an average of 224 people a day. o Coronary Heart Disease Coronary heart disease affects the coronary arteries‚ which supply the heart muscle itself with the glucose and oxygen that it requires for respiration. • Atheroma Atheroma is a fatty deposit that forms
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Symptoms of Huntington’s disease usually develop between ages 30 and 50‚ but they can appear as early as age 2 or as late as 80‚ depending on the onset (adult or juvenile). Huntington’s disease usually causes movement‚ cognitive‚ and psychiatric disorders as a result of all the neurons degenerating. The movement disorders that often appear can include both involuntary movements and impairments in voluntary movements. The movement symptoms include: involuntary jerking or writhing movements called
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Huntington’s Disease Haley Hamilton January 4th‚ 2017 Honors Biology 3&4 The World in the eyes of everyday people do not see what awful things that are taking place in those around them. Huntington’s disease is a fatal illness in which those who develop this have no chance of survival. The disease deteriorates one’s ability to function properly and their way of living. Not only does the disease harm the sufferer but it also affects the people around them as well‚ too. For‚ these people are
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pain. Moreover‚ candidate gene association studies have identified multiple genes that may contribute to clinical pain. Several studies have shown that polymorphisms in genes affecting the function of both catecholaminergic and serotonergic systems may be associated with chronic pain disorders‚ such as FM and TMD. However‚ which genes contribute explain the greatest proportion of variance in clinical pain responses is currently unknown‚ and the direct functional effects of specific polymorphisms have
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What would be the cost benefit to society for the early detection and treatment of diseases? Benjamin Franklin once said‚ “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. In today’s society‚ that statement is very true. Millions of dollars are spent in the treatment of diseases. It is definitely more cost effective to do annual screenings and testing than it is to treat a disease that has already manifested. Once a person has the disease‚ it becomes very costly. The patient has to go through
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scheduling tasks and the budgeting of resources for those tasks. The two most important components of these steps or stages are scheduling and budgeting. However‚ the difficult aspects of project management remain those centred on estimating task duration‚ including the execution and monitoring of tasks (Burns and Janamanchi‚ 2007). Project scheduling is using known project tasks (activities) and putting them into a timeline while project budgeting refers to the allocation of funds to the proposed
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If you have asthma its very difficult breathing through your airways. They become more even swollen and the muscles around the airways can tighten when something triggers your symptoms. Common asthma triggers are allergies‚ tobacco‚ medication‚ emotional anxiety and stress‚ viral and bacterial infections. Symptoms of asthma are coughing‚ shortness of breath‚ wheezing‚ and chest tightness. Asthma affects people very differently than people who don’t have asthma. When people breathe normally
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Clinical Depression Clinical depression can affect a large number of people in many different ways. Some may start to eat and sleep more than usual while others may lose weight and have difficulty sleeping. They may feel agitated or may continuously feel worthless and guilty for no known reasons. Still some others can put on a “happy face” and function reasonably well during work or school‚ but deep down may feel empty and depressed in
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thinking‚ communicating with other individuals in society‚ and also being able to act and cope in various situations. Individuals that suffer with schizophrenia disorder have a hard time keeping in touch with reality and not meet demands in life. Symptoms that a schizophrenia patient may exhibit are changes in ability‚ thinking‚ perception‚ behavior‚ and personality‚ delusions and hallucinations that last longer than six months (WebMD‚ 2014) The schizophrenia is associated with an increased dopamine-
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Depression is not only a state of being sad‚ it is a disease that conquers the ability to feel emotion‚ whether good or bad‚ whatsoever. Depression not only involves the mind‚ it also involves the body and thoughts. Depression is not a disease that only influences males or children of the age three to eleven. Every human being is prone to depression. Although women are three times more likely to become depressed than men‚ men are five times more likely to commit suicide when depressed than women
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