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Are the same thing metabolic syndrome and diabetes?
Metabolic syndrome is a collection of heart disease risk factors that increase your chance of developing heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. The condition is also known by other names including...
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Describe two diseases related to perturbation of protein conformation and two diseases related to haemoglobin.
1. (i) Parkinson's disease- A disorder of the central nervous system that affects movement, often including tremors.Nerve cell damage in the brain causes dopamine levels to drop, leading to the...
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Outline the designs of a case-control study and a cohort study to examine the association between a high-fat diet and bowel cancer
The cohort study design is the best available scientific method for measuring the effects of a suspected risk factor,they observe a group of people, known as the cohort, over a...
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Cancer is a --
Genetice disease
Viral disease
Cellular disease
Old age disease
Cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell proliferation. Therefore, it's a cellular disease. However, note that this proliferation may have some genetic background, may be caused by a virus and...
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The patient is experiencing diabetic nephropathy with hypertensive chronic renal disease and chronic renal failure. How many codes would be assigned for this patient?
Two codes will be assigned for this patient. First code for diabetic nephropathy: one of E10-E14 (Type x diabetes mellitus with renal complications), depending on the type (x).Second code for...
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What is the rare, chronic X-linked that has been associated with the McLeod phenotype?
It is chronic granulomatous disease, because the genes for the two conditions are located very close, and are linked.
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Rabies disease
1. Provide an explanation of the normal cellular/molecular mechanism, as well as how it is altered by disease. Describe how the altered mechanism leads to disease symptoms.
The virus enters the CNS by ascending along the peripheral nerves from the wound site. The incubation period usually between one and three months depends on the distance between the...
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A disease causing allele is recessive. Assume that the male parent doesn’t have the disease and the female parent has the disease. What percentage of sons will have the disease?
Let assume that the disease-causing allele is a and healthy allele is A. As the female parent has the disease, it could be assumed that the genotype of the female...
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One of the most common causes of valvular heart disease is . 1. hypertension 2. tobacco smoking 3. diabetes 4. alcoholism
4. alcoholism
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Why is it important that only low levels of oxygen are prescribed for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Oxygen treatment increases the amount of oxygen that flows into your lungs and bloodstream. If your COPD is very bad and your blood oxygen levels are low, getting more oxygen...
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