Steatohepatitis

The primary objective of the health psychology plan is to study the inter-individual differences in health and illness and their determinants. It is a new perspective, both multifactorial and integrative, characterized by the importance it attaches to transactions between the individual and the environment. In this research paper the objective of this Health psychology plan is much more particular it is up to me to address the very delicate subject. The management of a subject who presents problems related to its consumption of alcohol. It is precisely within the framework of the privileged relationship between a treating worker and the subject that relatively simple tools will allow me to detect in the subject a consumption of alcohol at risk, to approach it with him or even to give him advice on this issue. Aged 25 years old, the subject is an unemployed man who through different financial issues became a confused person desperately. Grew up in a low-income family, he hadn’t the opportunity to have a good scholar path. He’s single and homeless. Addicted to alcohol which causes him the Alcoholic fatty liver disease. The person I know also face health hazards and risks. Suffering from a SELF DESTRUCTIVE AND SELF-DEFEATING BEHAVIOR, he has continually aggravated his health unconsciously by drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana which leads him to a health problem. As consequences, up to this day, he has a lack of thinking, self-doubt on any activities which could be an…

break down nutrients properly including fat, thus forming a fatty liver, but it can be reversed simply by removing alcohol from the daily diet (p. 265). The second stage is alcoholic hepatitis, this causes inflammation in the liver and can be developed by continuous use of alcohol after fatty liver has formed. Some symptoms include: weight loss, pain or swelling in the stomach, nausea and vomiting, fever, and changes in mental state. In some cases, alcoholic hepatitis can be accompanied by…

Kidney Diseases, 2014). Insulin Resistance Syndrome is diagnosed by obtaining bloodwork which includes fasting glucose levels, insulin levels, glucose tolerance testing, and a hemoglobin A1C test to better understand the individual’s ability to produce and use insulin (Haffner, Valdez, Hazuda,, Mitchell, Morales, & Stern, 1992). When left untreated, insulin resistance can lead to many of the chronic diseases that plague the United States. This review of literature will focus on the link between…

The increase in fast consumption over the last couple of decades has caused obesity rates to increase uncontrollably within populations. Modern society has fallen under the impression that any food approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signifies a healthy diet. Therefore, people blindly devour anything in front of their plate and fail to question the FDA’s judgment. Like the Gilded Age where economic prosperity masked political corruptness, people are misled into believing that…

semen, vaginal secretions and plasma whereas HCV is spread through contact with blood and blood products. Patients infected with HBV usually recover completely and less will develop chronic hepatitis but patients with HCV usually develop chronic hepatitis. Chronic hepatitis may cause liver cirrhosis and eventually liver cancer. Heavy alcohol use also contribute to hepatocellular carcinoma. Long term heavy usage of alcohol specifically more than 80g a day increase the risk of developing liver…

lipoprotein metabolism, glucose metabolism, and inflammation. PPARs exist in the cells in three isoforms, PPAR-α, PPAR-δ/β, and PPAR-γ. Established treatments in clinical set-up, affecting PPARs are fibrates, which are PPAR-α agonists, and the thiazolidinediones, that are PPAR-γ agonists. PPAR-α is expressed mainly in various metabolically active tissues such as the liver, muscle, heart, and kidneys. Fatty acids activate PPAR-α to increase transcription of enzymes that induce peroxisome…

normally by replacing normal tissue with a new one in the formation of the scar. What Causes Liver Fibrosis Liver Fibrosis has formed when abnormal tissue which is called scar forms quicker than it could be extracted or removed from the liver. Or when the patient have Accumulation of collagen commonly happened due to extremely chronic disease usually permanent or recurs in most cases usually impact a patient for 3 months it’s commonly a result for poor diet, bad habits, living Conditions or…

blocks the flow of blood through the liver and slows the processing of nutrients, hormones, drugs, and naturally produced toxins. It also slows the production of proteins and other substances made by the liver. Liver disease may advance to a chronic state of cirrhosis. The most common problem is fatty cirrhosis associated with malnutrition and alcoholism. Malnutrition leads to multiple nutrition deficiencies as alcohol increasingly replace balanced meals. Alcohol and its metabolic byproducts…

Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infection that can damage the liver and cause it to swell, eventually leading to cirrhosis. Hepatitis C virus spreads through contact with infected blood, such as form of needlestick accident, injection drug use, or receiving blood transfusion. Also, Hepatitis C can be spread through sexual contact with an infected person or at time of childbirth, from mother to newborn. About 1 in 4 people with chronic hepatitis C develop cirrhosis. Hepatitis B also causes cirrhosis…

reduce stress, and increase concentration (“Depression”; “Exercise: 7 benefits”; Goldberg; Hagen). Physical activity also discharges brain cell building chemicals. In addition, exercise improves heart functions (Hagen). It does this by strengthening the heart muscles, decreasing blood pressure, and cholesterol levels. A decrease in cholesterol levels prevents the buildup of plaque on artery walls and decreases the risk of heart attacks, coronary heart disease, and stroke (Hagen; “What are…