Essays on Illnesses

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Acsm and Osteogenic Exercise Recommendation to Prevent Osteoporosis

4 pages / 1685 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

135

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

140

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

143

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

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Erectile Dysfunction in Men with Sickle Cell Anemia

2 pages / 720 words

Erectile dysfunction is common in post-priapism clients with sickle cell disease. Evidence has shown that sickle cell disease has been linked to several reproductive issues, such as low sperm count and decreased testosterone levels. This can create challenges between the client and nurse. Sickle cell...

Nursing Care Plan Sexual Health Sickle Cell Anemia

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The Future of Stroke Rehabilitation

3 pages / 1385 words

Introduction A stroke is a neurological condition where the blood supply to the brain is disrupted with on following cell death as a result. Strokes can be divided into ischemic strokes and hemorrhagic strokes. Depending on the affected area, the symptoms of a stroke and...

Patient Stroke Therapy

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Treating Diseases with Sports and Exercise: a Report About Endurance Training for Stroke Patients

5 pages / 2296 words

Introduction The knowledge about the effectiveness of interventions for stroke patients, which improve the physical fitness is very little. According to Hoeß, Schupp, Schmidt and Gräßel (2008) standard guidelines for rehabilitation of stroke patients don’t exist in Germany. Generally accepted information about content, duration and...

Fitness Physical Exercise Stroke

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Symptoms and Causes of Stroke in Children

2 pages / 962 words

Every year, 1,000 kids and infants suffer a stroke. The rarity of medical specialty stroke mostly explains the very fact that it’s unknown. If strokes are primarily in adults (this is that the third reason for death when cancer and infarction in folks over 18),...

Stroke

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An Overview of Cystic Fibrosis

2 pages / 954 words

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic, recessive disorder which affects the lungs and the liver. CF develops when there is a mutation in the gene because it’s autosomal recessive it means you would have inherited two copies of the CFTR gene, one from each parent....

Cystic Fibrosis Respiratory System

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Medical Marijuana as an Option for Sickle Cell Anemia

3 pages / 1216 words

“Sickle cell anemia does not bind me, it drives me. It covers with hurt allowing you to see and taste the freedom of health and when you least expect it makes you beg to be normal. I am its keeper and though it hurts to...

Medical Marijuana Patient Sickle Cell Anemia

150

The Theme of Death in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of The Red Death

1 page / 541 words

Death is something that everyone agonizes every day. Edgar Allan Poe emphasizes how death is inevitable in his short story, The Masque of the Red Death. The main character, Prince Prospero, a misleading, deceitful ruler pretends to help his country as his people are dying...

Death Edgar Allan Poe The Masque of The Red Death

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The Stages of Death in The Movie The Bucket List

1 page / 624 words

The movie The Bucket List by Justin Zackham written in 2007 is a movie that demonstrates the 5 stages of dying. The five stages of death denial,anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The movie plays two terminally ill men, Carter Chambers and Edward Cole. They hope...

Death Film Analysis

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Experiences with Death and Grief in My Life

3 pages / 1478 words

My experiences with death and grief have been many involving pets, family members, friends, classmates and members of my school and faith communities. The grief I experienced differed depending on the relationship I had with the person who died and the circumstances surrounding their death....

Death Grief Personal Experience