Category: Disease

  • Preventing Iodine Deficiency Disease in China

    Food fortification with missing vitamins, macro- and micronutrients is a serious intervention in the currently existing structure of human nutrition. The need for such intervention is dictated by the environmental factors associated with changes in the composition and nutritional value of the food we use, as well as the transformation of our way of life…

  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Patient Education

    Table of Contents Clinical Question Type of the Study Theoretical Framework References Clinical Question Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) affect the world’s population greatly nowadays. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about a million of them are acquired every day (WHO, 2016). Rather often, people are not even aware of their condition until the moment…

  • The Parkinson’s Disease Process of Diagnosis

    Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder that is created by degeneration of the brain’s nerve cells. In most cases, these cells often die or become impaired, hence losing the capacity to produce dopamine that is essential for movement and balance (Atkinson-Clement et al., 2017). The leading cause of the ailment remains unknown. Nevertheless, several theories…

  • Traveling With Congestive Heart Failure Disease

    Patients who suffer from congestive heart failure (CHF) have several recommendations regarding traveling and transportation. The increasing popularity of air flights demands to follow special requirements in utilizing passengers with cardiovascular diseases. As most commercial aircraft fly at an altitude between 22000 and 44000 feet above sea level, people with cardiovascular diseases are highly affected…

  • The Patients Suffering from Chronic Diseases

    Table of Contents Introduction to the Problem Identification the Problem Significance of the problem to Nursing Purpose of the research Research questions Master’s Essentials that aligned with your topic References Introduction to the Problem The last several years could be characterized by significant shifts in the healthcare sector. The focus on the satisfaction of the…

  • An Elderly Patient’s Diseases and Interventions

    According to her medical history, Mrs. J. suffers from four diseases at once: smoking, hypertension, obesity, and heart rate disorders. Clinical manifestations of these diseases include rapid breathing and coughing with thick sputum and heavy bleeding. This is also confirmed by the bilateral expansion of the jugular vein, pulmonary cracks described in history. Heart rate…

  • The Spectrum of Infectious Diseases

    Introduction Years of evolution have led to the fact that every minute is threatened by thousands of infectious agents to cause both small skin irritation and death. Three cohorts of microorganisms, viral, bacterial, and eukaryotic, can be identified as having pathogenic effects on individual health. It seems that the search for medicines and the detailed…

  • Heart Disease: Types, Risk Factors, Symptoms and Treatment

    Table of Contents Introduction Types of Heart Disease Risk Factors associated with Heart Disease Symptoms of Heart Disease Treatment of the Heart Disease Prevention of Heart Disease Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Heart disease is also referred to as cardiopathy, a condition that affects the heart. The awareness of the disease has been raised because it…

  • An Elderly Patient’s Diseases and Interventions

    According to her medical history, Mrs. J. suffers from four diseases at once: smoking, hypertension, obesity, and heart rate disorders. Clinical manifestations of these diseases include rapid breathing and coughing with thick sputum and heavy bleeding. This is also confirmed by the bilateral expansion of the jugular vein, pulmonary cracks described in history. Heart rate…

  • Fever, Cold, or Pfeiffer’s Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment

    An evaluation of the symptoms reported by the patients suggests the presence of inflammation in the nasopharynx area, which causes swallowing pain. Moreover, the absence of cough and respiratory complications provides the basis for the provisional diagnosis, which is tonsillitis. Other symptoms relevant to this disease can be found during the further examination of the…