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Hope A. Taitt SID# 201205672 Write Up #2 Source of Information: Mother and Patient; both reliable sources Chief Complaint: 16 year old female with past medical history of intermittent asthma presenting with malaise and back pain for two days and on the day of admission cough with dark yellow sputum. History of Present Illness/Interval History: The patient initially presented to the Emergency Department on Monday after developing severe lower back and leg pain accompanied by fatigue. The patient

Diabetes one of the most well-known diseases is a metabolic disease in which the body cannot produce insulin causing elevated levels of glucose in the blood. Insulin is a hormone that is very influential in the way the body changes food into energy, and is very important when it comes to treating or controlling the disease. Diabetes consists of two types, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. One is more lethal than the other, while the other requires less treatments of insulin. Diabetes is a very complex

Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the body’s capability to produce or respond to the hormone called insulin. With this happening it causes irregular metabolism of carbohydrates and raise the body’s glucose levels in the urine and the blood. Although diabetes is very disturbing it is also preventable. Diabetes is one of the greatest common diseases of mankind. A lot of people believe that having this disease is ordinary, or even curable. Although it is not perceived to be terminal and contagious

TERMINOLOGY CLINICAL CLARIFICATION • A metabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from decreased insulin secretion and insulin receptor sensitivity. Chronic hyperglycemia of diabetes leads to microvascular and macrovascular complications 1 CLASSIFICATION 1 • Diabetes mellitus type 2 ○ Accounts for 90-95% of cases of diabetes ○ Less common types of diabetes include: diabetes mellitus type 1, gestational diabetes, diabetes due to genetic defects, drug-induced diabetes, endocrinopathy

NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Learner: Consuela Kelly-Crisler THIS FORM MUST BE COMPLETELY FILLED IN Please Follow These Procedures: If requested by your mentor, use an assignment cover sheet as the first page of the word processor file. Use “headers” to indicate your course code, assignment number, and your name on each page of the assignment/homework including this assignment cover sheet. . Keep a Photocopy or Electronic Copy Of Your Assignments: You may need

Early Childhood through Middle Adulthood and the Effects of Obesity Michelle Price Troy University, Tampa Bay   Abstract Type your abstract here. Notice that the abstract is not indented. The abstract is 50 to 250 words and summarizes the main ideas in your paper. Do not use “I” or “we” in your abstract.   The Biopsychosocial impact of Obesity on Early childhood through Late Adulthood Obesity has become an epidemic which negatively affects millions of American’s and individuals from other countries

NEOPLASIA Presented by Dr Abudu Emmanuel Kunle (MBBS, M.Sc, FMCPath) Senior Lecturer and Consultant Histopathologist University of Uyo Teaching Hospital,Uyo, Akwa- Ibom State, Nigeria. Neoplasia means the process of new growth whilst Neoplasm means a new growth. Sometimes, the parenchyma cells stimulate the formation of an abundant collagenous stroma, referred to as desmoplasia. Some tumours e.g. some cancers of breast are stony hard or scirrhous. Sarcomas have little connective tissue stroma and

Adrenal gland In mammals, the adrenal glands (also known as suprarenal glands) are the triangular-shaped endocrine glands that sit on top of the kidneys. They are chiefly responsible for releasing hormones in conjunction with stress through the synthesis of corticosteroids and catecholamines, including cortisol and adrenaline (epinephrine), respectively. Anatomy and function Anatomically, the adrenal glands are located in the retroperitoneum situated atop the kidneys, one on each side. They are