Examples of diseases of affluence in the following topics:
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- Type II diabetes is an example of a disease of affluence, as it is thought to develop from high-sugar and high-fat diets, rather than from genetic predispositions or contagions.
- The main diseases and health conditions prioritized by global health initiatives are sometimes classified under the terms diseases of affluence and diseases of poverty, although the impacts of globalization are increasingly blurring any such distinction.
- Examples of diseases of affluence include Type II diabetes, asthma, coronary heart disease, obesity, hypertension, cancer, and alcoholism.
- So-called diseases of affluence are predicted to become more prevalent in developing countries, as diseases of poverty decline, longevity increases, and lifestyles change.
- As the above discussion of diseases of poverty and diseases of affluence reveals, health trends are closely related to social, political, and economic patterns.
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- However, if someone stops smoking the risks of developing diseases steadily decline, although gradually, as the damage to their body is repaired.The main health risks from tobacco smoking pertain to diseases of the cardiovascular system, in particular smoking is a major risk factor for: myocardial infarction (heart attack); diseases of the respiratory tract, such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and emphysema; and cancer, particularly lung cancer and cancers of the larynx and tongue.
- Recent polls show that 90% of Americans currently believe that alcoholism is, in fact, a disease.
- While cultural and scientific definitions of obesity are subject to change, it is accepted that excessive body weight predisposes to various forms of disease, particularly cardiovascular disease.
- Increasing affluence itself may be a cause or contributing factor since obesity tends to flourish as a disease of affluence in countries which are developing and becoming westernised.
- Department of Health and Human Services officially classified obesity as a disease.
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- Many research groups are examining the causes of these hallmarks of the disease.
- One form of the disease is usually caused by mutations in one of three known genes.
- This rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease affects fewer than five percent of patients with the disease and causes dementia beginning between the ages of 30 and 60.
- The prevalence of these Lewy bodies often correlates with the severity of the disease.
- The disease is likely the result of a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
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- The severity and duration of diseases vary greatly and are important for epidemiological studies.
- In an infectious disease, the incubation period is the time between infection and the appearance of symptoms.
- A progressive disease is a disease whose typical natural course is the worsening of the disease until death, serious debility, or organ failure occurs.
- The opposite of progressive disease is stable disease or static disease: a medical condition that exists, but does not get better or worse.
- The scope of a disease also affects its severity and duration:
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- While many autoimmune diseases are rare, collectively these diseases afflict millions of patients.
- Approximately 5–8% of the US population suffers from this group of chronic, debilitating diseases.
- It is suspected that genetic defects play a role in the etiology of these diseases.
- In contrast to classical inherited genetic diseases, like sickle cell anemia, autoimmune diseases are not caused by the defect of a single gene, but by the dysfunction of the complex interaction of a group of genes.
- However, defects of one or more of these genes do not cause an autoimmune disease, but only predispose a person for an autoimmune disease.
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- Vaccination is a proven way to prevent and even eradicate widespread outbreaks of life-threatening infectious diseases.
- Active immunity to diseases can be acquired by natural exposure (in response to actually contracting an infectious disease) or it may be acquired intentionally, via the administration of an antigen, commonly known as vaccination .
- Vaccinations are developed to stimulate the body's production of antibodies without the manifestation of clinical signs and symptoms of the disease in immunocompetent hosts.
- Even today, the risk of contracting some of these infectious diseases, like measles and chicken pox, can have devastating, long-term complications, like blindness.
- Global mass vaccination drives have met with enormous success in reducing the incidence of many diseases.
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- Malaria is the second leading cause of death in Africa, after HIV/AIDS and is the fifth leading cause of death from infectious diseases worldwide.
- Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible diseases or communicable diseases, are clinically evident illnesses resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents.
- Said to be one of the world's oldest diseases, malaria is caused by one of four protozoans within the genus Plasmodium.
- Said to be one of the world's oldest diseases, malaria is caused by one of four protozoans within the genus Plasmodium.
- Assess the implications of infectious diseases in terms of health care and life expectancy of individuals
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- Paget's disease of bone is a chronic disorder that can result in enlarged and misshapen bones.
- Paget's disease is rarely diagnosed in people less than 40 years of age.
- Prevalence of Paget's disease ranges from 1.5 to 8.0 percent, depending on age and country of residence.
- High magnification micrograph of Paget's disease of the bone.
- Paget's disease of bone is shown in the left pelvis.
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- For the past 30 years, the Department of Public Health in Connecticut has maintained surveillance of the incidence rates and outbreak locations of Lyme disease.
- This vigilance is due to the fact that in 1975, Lyme, CT became the epicenter of an outbreak of an unusual tick-borne disease.
- Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by at least three species of bacteria belonging to the genus Borrelia.
- The disease is named after the town of Lyme, Connecticut, USA, where a number of cases were identified in 1975.
- Nymphal and adult deer ticks can be carriers of Lyme disease.
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- Assume that Disease X is a rare disease, and only 2% of people in your situation have it.
- Of these 20,000 with the disease, the test would accurately detect it in 99% of them.
- of them would actually have the disease.
- Of the one million people tested, the test was correct for 891,800 of those without the disease and for 19,800 with the disease; the test was correct 91% of the time.
- Since only 2% of people in your situation have Disease X, the prior probability of Event D is 0.02.