Hemoglobin

The Glycosylated Hemoglobin Test Thanks to advances in agriculture and food processing, Diabetes has become an epidemic that is affecting nearly thirty million Americans. National Health Expenditure (NHE) has recorded a whopping three trillion dollars in 2014 on diabetes.1 In recent years, more than twenty percent of the NHE has been spent on Diabetes diagnosis and management. The Diabetes by itself is of no importance. But the complications of diabetes are wide, including kidney failure, heart…

Energy needed for life comes from the breaking or forming of chemical bonds during chemical reactions. Energy is released in the formation of bonds and energy is also released when the bonds are broken, but in both energy is required to start the chemical reaction. This energy needed to start a chemical reaction, activation energy, comes from enzymes. Enzymes (almost always proteins) are organic catalysts that help speed up the rate of reactions and allow the reactants to get the most out of the…

learning and cognitive abilities (2). Lead has also been shown to cause programmed brain cell death in many animal studies (6). Another way lead is toxic is by having a negative effect on the synthesis of heme, a cofactor substance required for hemoglobin and cellular respiration (2). This negative effect results in fatigue and anemia in beings exposed to…

Prescriptions are not affordable for some people because prescriptions are usually expensive. Pharmacist should lower down the prescription price because most people are struggling and not having the money for the medication that needs to be taken by those people. The good medication is not going to help most people if it’s not affordable. Cary Byrd from eDrugSearch says, “Medications are often cheap for people with insurance, but the average cost of prescription drugs without insurance can be…

and production. A chronic cough that is insistent for three successive months in a consecutive two-year period can be classified as chronic bronchitis; this disease process is caused chiefly by smoking. At this time Mr. Rembert presents with a hemoglobin level of 6.5 (normal 13.5- 17.5 for males) and appears to be severely anemic (severe iron deficiency) which is believed to have brought on…

Sickle Cell Anemia is a blood disorder that causes red blood cells to become misshapen and not live as long as a regular blood cell. Sickle Cell is a disease that is not very common in the world. In the United States, Sickle Cell Anemia affects between 70,000 and 100,000 people and occurring in 1 out of every 36,000 births. Sickle Cell is more likely to occur in somebody from Africa, South or Central America, the Caribbean islands, Mediterranean countries, India or Saudi Arabia. The usual age…

Case History A 23-year old man, came to the emergency department because of shortness of breath, fatigue, a cough, muscle pain, nausea, and a fever. His shortness of breath was due to minimal activity and returned to normal after several minutes of rest. His fatigue has limited him to only doing daily required activities. He did not complain of having any chest pain while breathing. His cough was nonproductive and had no aggravating or relieving factors to it. He also complained of feeling sick…

prepare a decoction of pears, and disease in the body will not stay long. This method of treatment is much more enjoyable and safer than pills, but the effect of that is pretty much the same. Useful Properties of Pear Pear also useful for low hemoglobin and iron poor digestibility of the body, and all because its structure in bulk contain folic acid, which plays an important role in these processes. This useful element in pear contains even more than the well-known black currants. A…

Should cigarettes and other tobacco products be outlawed Cigarettes are considered a great invitation by many people, also considered the worst and the most dangerous invitation in the 20th century. The Center for Disease Control said smoking causes lung cancer in 90 percent of lung cancer patients. Additionally, the CDC says that smokers are 15 to 30 times more likely to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than non-smokers.(From Internet). The origins of modern tobacco control are in the…

variability of platelet response to clopidogrel [25-25] [64]. Increased platelet reactivity is a component of the diabetic prothrombotic state. Aldona et al [57] demonstrated in their study that diabetes and glycemic control measured by glycosylated hemoglobin, but not glucose blood concentration, were found to be predictors of low, both acute and chronic, response to…