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What are some risk factors for disease?
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Age, gender, race, immune system, genetic factors
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What is angina?
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Chest pain due to an imbalance between oxygen supply and demand.
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How do you characterize asthma?
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Small airway obstruction, progressive airway inflammation, increased airway responsiveness from stimuli.
Symptoms include: wheezing, dyspnea, and coughing. |
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What are the symptoms of a bacterial infection?
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Fever >101 degrees F
Increase in WBC (> 12,000) |
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What is Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
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An enlargement of the prostrate of a male as he ages.
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What is Bipolar Disease and how is it characterized?
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A depressive psychosis, alternating between excessive phases of mania and depression.
-Mania may be characterized by an increased need for sleep, distractibility, elevated or irritable mood, excessive involvement in pleasurable activities with a potential for painful consequences, grandiose ideas, increase in activity, pressure to keep talking,and racing thoughts. |
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What is Bronchitis?
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A condition in which the lungs' defense mechanisms have been destroyed by cig. smoke, dusts, fumes, pollution, or bacterial infection.
-Characterized by a cough that produces a purulent, green, or blood-soaked sputum. |
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What is Congestive Heart Failure?
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A condition in which the heart is unable to meet the metabolic needs of the tissues. It pumps less blood than it receives.
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What is Gestational diabetes?
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Occurs during the 2nd and 3rd trimester of pregnancy. Treated with exercise, diet, and insulin.
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What is Type 1 diabetes?
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An individual's body is unable to produce insulin, and therefore he becomes insulin-dependent.
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What is Type 2 diabetes?
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A condition that occurs in adults who have an impaired insulin secretion or who are often insulin resistant.
-Treatment includes weight reduction through diet and exercise. |
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What is Secondary diabetes?
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Diabetes with onset caused by taking various medications, such as oral contraceptives, beta-blockers, diuretics, calcium channel blockers, glucocorticoids, and phenytoin.
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What kinds of drugs can cause a drug-induced ulcer?
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Aspirin, antiimflammatory agents, corticosteroids, potassium chloride, methotrexate, and iron.
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What is Emphysema?
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The destruction of alveoli, walls, or air sacs of the lungs, resulting in an obstruction of the airflow on expiration.
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What is Epilepsy?
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Abnormal electrical discharges in the cerebral cortex that may result in recurring paroxysmal seizures.
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