The NHLBI also opens the door to information on research and clinical trials on cardiomyopathy. Not only does the NHLBI bring awareness to cardiomyopathy with all the information given to us, but also directs us to other diseases related to cardiomyopathy. Besides having to click an arrow button to go to the next page the NHLBI web page was easy to navigate, because of the tabs that kept track of where people were on the side. Also they were very good at describing medical terms instead of just leaving them for people to guess at what they were. I would recommend this to people who were wondering about cardiomyopathy, although I wish they would include diagrams or pictures to help better explain what happens.
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It is estimated that in 2006 the worldwide prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease was 26.6 million and that by the year 2050 the prevalence is expected to quadruple; making 1 in every 85 persons living with Alzheimer’s disease [8]. Alzheimer’s disease is a disorder that affects people around the world, and is recognized as the same disorder by the biomedical system in North America. Although Alzheimer’s is a global disease there is a higher prevalence of dementia related Alzheimer’s found in the more developed regions of the world (see table 1.0
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Current research from the National Institute on Aging indicates that the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease doubles every five years beyond age 65. As the population ages the disease impacts agreater percentage of Americans. The incidence of the disease is rising in line with the aging population in America. 2012 Alzheimer’s disease Facts and Figures article provides a statistical resource for U.S. data related to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. An estimated 5.4 million Americans of all ages have Alzheimer’s disease in 2012.
It provides a person with a detailed database of a person’s subjective and objective data. A comprehensive health assessment of a person provides him with a broad knowledge of all possible physical, mental and emotional strength and weaknesses of that person. In case of any emergency or medical condition, these comprehensive health assessment data can be compared to the present ones to find any deviation from normal and gives an overview of the person’s coping power of the condition (Jarvis, 2012).Every person, including the healthy ones, should take the comprehensive health assessments. Some of these healthy individuals are reported with serious health problems like asthma, cancer, heart disease and possibility of strokes, after a comprehensive health assessment. This kind of basic medical assessment is very valuable for detecting early signs of any disease and monitoring of future changes in the condition.
Traumatic Brain Injury Val Mateyshin Neurological Disorders OTH 1432C 02-04-2012 Traumatic brain injury, commonly referred to as TBI can seriously and or permanently alter life for a victim and a victim's family. Every 16 seconds in the United States, a person suffers a traumatic brain injury. This equals approximately 1.5 to 2 million traumatic brain injuries each year. TBI is the leading cause of death and disability among children and young adults. Even more alarming, is that traumatic brain injury occurs more frequently than breast cancer, HIV/AIDS infections, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injuries combined (Dawodu, 2011).
Mandell et al. (2006) examined the disparities in the diagnosis of children with autism using insurance claims of 406 Medicaid-eligible children, including 242 African-American, 118 Caucasian, 33 Latino, and 13 children falling into other categories. They found that African-American children were three times more likely than Caucasian children to receive another diagnosis first and were 2.6 times less likely than Caucasian children to receive an autism diagnosis on their first specialty care visit (Mandell et al., 2006). Once African-American children entered treatment, they required three times the number of visits over a period three times as long as Caucasian children before receiving an autistic disorder diagnosis (Mandell et al., 2006). African-American children were also 5.1 times more likely than Caucasian children to receive a diagnosis of Adjustment Disorder than of ADHD, and 2.4 times more likely to receive a diagnosis of
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