Essays on Illnesses

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Death Rates Among American Men Due to Suicide

2 pages / 855 words

Suicide can be viewed as a response to extreme stress and buildup of different emotions over a certain period of time. The levels of tolerance for emotions such as sadness vary from one individual to another, and being overwhelmed or overpowered by these emotions can...

Death Suicide

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Diabetes Mellitus: Analysis of The Types, Strategies and Treatments

2 pages / 1043 words

Abstract Diabetes is a general term that refers to any of various disorders that are characterized by excessive urination, also known as polyuria. When used alone it refers to Diabetes Mellitus (DM). There are several types of Diabetes, known as Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (DM...

Diabetes

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Review of The Consequences of Diabetes Mellitus

3 pages / 1197 words

Abstract This research paper will explain five consequences of diabetes as it relates to the health, safety, and well-being of older adults. Moreover, the following will describe how healthcare professionals can educate older adults how to manage their care and ultimately prevent such consequences. Lastly,...

Diabetes

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Childhood Obesity Outbreak: a Challenge on Parenting, Problems, and Inference

5 pages / 2049 words

In today’s time, people come across many things that have both positive and negative impacts on their lifestyle. Some of the impacts come with their solutions but sometimes it becomes out of control. People love to eat and eating habits determine our health diagram in...

Childhood Obesity

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Myocardial Infarction as a Leading Death Cause

3 pages / 1428 words

Abstract Coronary heart disease is a condition caused by decreased blood flow to the heart muscle due to atherosclerotic plaque and deposition of different substances that lead to narrowing of the coronary arteries, the plaque or even clotting is because of obesity unhealthy lifestyle and...

Heart Myocardial Infarction

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Myocardial Infarction - The Most Common Cause of Death in The World

6 pages / 2680 words

Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the developed world. It is a broad term used for the conditions affecting the heart and blood vessels. Although it is a preventable and predictable disease to a...

Death Myocardial Infarction

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Type 2 Diabetes and Its Complications

3 pages / 1241 words

Introduction Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus has taken the lead among other causes to several deaths in the world as a whole and the case of the United States in general. These cases are however due to pregnancy related causes, generic factors, pathophysiological reason and other...

Diabetes

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A Research of Bone Metabolism in Osteoporosis

4 pages / 1836 words

Introduction The human skeleton is composed of roughly 206 bones. The axial skeleton and appendicular skeleton together make up the adult skeleton. Bones are active tissues that are being broken down and rebuilt all the time. Bones have an enormous variety and due to this...

Osteoporosis

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An Overview of Bone Disease: Osteoporosis

2 pages / 894 words

Osteoporosis, or porous bone is a common bone disorder. It is characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue as a result of bone resorption exceeding bone formation. The deterioration of bone tissue and low bone mass leads to fragile bones and...

Osteoporosis

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Acsm and Osteogenic Exercise Recommendation to Prevent Osteoporosis

4 pages / 1674 words

In a society with higher rates of older population and longer life span over time, the prevalence of multiple degenerative disease is increasing. Nowadays, there is a high incidence of osteoporosis compared to other common disease states, such as: heart attacks, strokes, cancers, etc. The...

Osteoporosis

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Providing Nursing Care to Patiens with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

3 pages / 1488 words

Lupus, Latin for wolf, was the term chosen by physicians in the early 19th century to describe a relatively rare condition characterized by a distinct rash on the face. Erythema, or redness, was combined with the wolf description to coin our current term for the...

Lupus

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Lupus Erythematosus: Analysis of Cases

4 pages / 1854 words

Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that damages any part of the body such as skin, joints or any part inside the body. Autoimmune disease means that our immune response cannot differentiate foreign invaders and the healthy tissue in the body. Thus the body creates...

Lupus

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An Overview of Lupus: History of The Disease, Its Effects and Treatment Options

6 pages / 2851 words

Having the feeling of pain and/or swollen joints, unusual hair loss, extreme fatigue, especially if you are college student), etc can be really uncomfortable for someone. Well, some people have to deal with those symptoms. These symptoms can be a sign of LUPUS; this disease...

Lupus

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The Issue of Systemic Lupus in Southern Africa

1 page / 555 words

The southern African region has its own challenges with lupus. The low incidence rate in whole Africa may be the result of multiple factors. In majority of cases there is delay in diagnosis, Tiffin et al has reported in 93% of cases there is complete...

Lupus

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An Overview of Lupus and The Role of Nurse in Its Treatment

3 pages / 1288 words

When we think of diseases, we typically expect to see evidence and symptoms, we expect to see a person that looks sick. When it comes to people with lupus, they don’t always appear to be sick or have anything wrong with them. Which could lead...

Lupus

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Hypertension in Children: Overview of Healthcare Policy Concern and Solution

3 pages / 1219 words

Hypertension is one of the biggest health concerns in the world now, the rate at which uncontrolled blood pressure is growing is not only evolving among older people but we are seeing high increase in the numbers of children that been diagnosed with hypertension. Projected...

Hypertension

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Preventing and Controlling Hypertension for Improved Population Health

3 pages / 1407 words

Abstract The role of the nurse in improving hypertension control has expanded over the past 50 years, complementing and supplementing that of the physician. Nurses’ involvement began with measuring and monitoring blood pressure (BP) and patient education and has expanded to become one of the...

Hypertension

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Investigation of The Link Between Poverty and Hypertension

3 pages / 1508 words

Hypertension is a chronic disease that disproportionately affects those of a lower social economic status (SES) in the United States. There are several contributing factors, or risk factors, that can exacerbate the already biological disposition to the disease. Such risk factors are considered social disparities...

Hypertension

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Sickle Cell Anemia: a Case Study

6 pages / 2854 words

Case Study A 19-year-old African-American female, hereafter referred to as “AP”, presents to her primary care physician with fatigue, fever, and right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain for 3 days. AP has a significant medical history of sickle cell anemia (SCA). AP also complains of...

Blood Sickle Cell Anemia