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Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Teaching Patients and Students About Disease

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, including an increase in the number of ...

Patient Treatment Plan

She surveyed all of the independent living facilities in the local area and chose one; her grown children arranged and conducted t...

Culture and Diabetic Management in African Americans

diabetes under control. Theoretical Learning Foundations Diabetes mellitus...

A Diabetes Overview

In nine pages diabetes and its various aspects are considered regarding illness management including medication alternatives, non ...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Diabetes Control: A Review of Literature

noted as statistically significant (Strine et al, 2005). The outcomes of this study are presented in a in a table broken do...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Pancreas and Diabetes

an autoimmune reaction to the antigens that are found in the islet cells located in the pancreas (King, 2005). What happens is th...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

Overview of Bell's Palsy

the muscles of the face as well as to the saliva and tear glands. The nerve transmits signals for muscular movements as well as so...

MODS

Anyone who has had the opportunity to spend time with an individual who has received a transplanted kidney, liver or even a heart,...

Associated Difficulties and Treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder

This paper consists of a ten page current literature oveview on the condition known as ADD and discusses implications for teachers...

Human Depression and the Borna Virus

In nine pages the central nervous attacking infection known as the Borna virus is examined in terms of its connection to human psy...

The Traditional Concept of Health Insurance

This 6 page paper discusses the important points a person needs to know when buying health insurance. The writer discusses such th...

Patau's Syndrome: Trisomy 13

of their facial expressions are indicative of the condition, although the public often looks upon them as being somewhat unusual. ...

Overview of Gout

In eleven pages the medical condition known as gout is examined in a consideration of its symptoms, treatment options, and how it ...

Overview of Hyperlipidemia Condition

In nine pages this paper presents an overview of the condition known as hyperlipidemia in a consideration of its diagnosis, treatm...

Hyperkalemia

The condition is caused by an increase in the "plasma potassium concentration," which in turn cases an increase in the "extracellu...

Effects of PTSD on Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Red Convertible,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home,’ and Tim O’Brien’s ‘How to Tell a True War Story’

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

The Pathophysiology of ADHD

Rubia, Smith, Brammer, Toone, and Taylor (2005) report on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate t...

Periodontal Disease

with daily brushing and flossing, and regular cleaning by a dentist or dental hygienist" (Periodontal disease, 2007). One exceptio...

2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2 Exegesis

speaking against him were false apostles. There is some question as to exactly who these false apostles are. Some scholars suggest...

Aspects of Atopic Dermatitis

order to study predictors for development of the disease, 1005 "urban and suburban mothers and their infants enrolled in Project V...

Causes and Effects of Depression

feelings of relative well-being" ("Causes of Mood Disorders" 1). While the causes of depression are still not known with certainty...

Overview of Sinusitis

whatever substances that have become trapped in it) toward openings known as ostia, which lead to a passageway in the back of the ...

Benefits of Yoga for Asthma Sufferers

typical medical interventions in treating illness. Yoga can be can be performed in absence of health care professionals, complex e...

Are Amyloid Plaques the Product or Cause of Alzheimer's?

Research continues to uncover the previously unidentified correlations between amyloid plaques and their role - cause or product o...

Hemolytic Disease In Newborn Infants

(Kasprisin et al, 1987; Strauss et al, 2004). It is also possible that during a normal pregnancy there will be a spontaneous trans...