Comorbidity

What is childhood obesity and how does it affect the world? Childhood obesity is a medical condition that affects children and adolescents, who weighs more above their normal or required weight and height for their age. The obesity in children is a serious health problem that later becomes problems in adulthood like diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol and with many children becoming obese can and will lead to poor self-esteem and depression. Childhood obesity is a continuous…

Article 1 is titled “Social Information Processing n Elementary-School Aged Children with ADHD: Medication Effects and Comparisons with Typical Children” by Sarah King, Daniel Waschbusch, William Pelham Jr, Bradley Frankland, Brendan Andrade, Sophie Jacques, and Penny Corkum. The study done was to examine social information processing in medicated and non-medicated children with ADHD and in controls. There were 75 children which consisted of 56 boys and 19 girls ranging from ages 6-12. 41 of the…

with PTSD. Table 2: “Association Between PTSD and Risk of Dementia in Multivariable-Adjusted Models” showed that veterans with PTSD had double the chance getting incident dementia than those without PTSD. After adjustments were made for medical comorbidities and other neuropsychiatric diagnoses, decreased the strength of the association between PTSD and dementia. Table 3: “Association Between PTSD and Risk of Subtypes of Dementia” revealed that unadjusted HR ranged from 1.94 to 3.13. While the…

is, this mental illness has a lot of co-occurring disorders. A lot of the symptoms will overlap, making it sometimes extremely difficult to pick out BPD amongst the other disorder(s) the patient may have. “According to the NIMH-funded National Comorbidity Survey Replication...about 85 percent of people with BPD also suffer from another mental illness.” (NEABPD) The most common co-occuring mental illness is major depressive disorder, with 60% of BPD sufferers also suffering from that. The other…

Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) is often a feared complication of overly aggressive correction of hyponatremia (defined as < 135 mEq/L).1 Current guidelines1,2,3 dictate a slow correction of sodium, generally not exceeding 8-10 mEq/24 hrs to prevent CPM.1 CPM is a non-inflammatory demyelinating disease characterized by the loss of myelin in the base of the pons and carries a poor prognosis, often times resulting in death. We present a case in which an elderly gentleman was admitted for…

management of coronary artery disease as well as in cardiac surgical techniques have led to improved outcomes with consequent longer life expectancy for patients. Greater numbers of patients with depressed left ventricular function, multiple comorbidities, failed interventional procedures, and prior revascularization operations are now referred for cardiac surgery. As a result, preoperative risk assessment is even more critical to ensure the safe performance of cardiac surgical procedures and…

REFLECTION PAPER I Mathari Hospital was established in 1904 as a smallpox isolation centre, later it became known as the lunatic Asylum. In 1924, it was renamed Mathari Mental Hospital, later the name was changed to Mathari Hospital in 1964, currently it is called Mathari Teaching and Referral Hospital. Mathari Hospital is Kenya’s sole National referral and teaching psychiatric Hospital Olwendo, W. M., (2015), it offer services to those suffering from a wide range of psychiatric disorders. In…

I. Eating disorders is not a choice, it is a serious and sometime fatal illnesses that cause server changes in an individual’s eating behaviors. A silent call for help from individual’s suffering from an eating disorder may be seen as obsessing over food, body weight, and shape (The National Institute of Mental Health, 2016). Even though there are individuals that are concerned with their body image, eating disorders are marked with extremes, eating disorders are present when the individual has…

However, we should carefully select patients with good performance status with no major contraindication to chemotherapy. Unfortunately, majority of patients with lung cancers are life long smokers and have multiple comorbidities including COPD, cardiac problems, chronic kidney impairment which makes the decision of radical treatment with CRT rather challenging. It is essential for oncologist to able to assess performance status accurately before considering patient for…

gradual improvement in the patient’s behaviour during teenage, or the patient may learn to control himself/herself if relevant strategies have been taught (APA, n.d.). Nevertheless, this progress may be significantly limited by the high rate of comorbidity with…