Association between Periodontitis and Alzheimer’s Disease Abbayya, K., Puthanakar, N. Y., Naduwinmani, S., & Chidambar, Y. S. (2015). Association between Periodontitis and Alzheimer’s Disease. North American journal of medical sciences, 7(6), 241–246. https://doi.org/10.4103/1947-2714.159325 As suggested by the title, this article explores the linkage between Periodontitis and Alzheimer’s Disease. There are four key concepts that the author uses in assessing the connection between the two main concepts. The first term is Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) which is defined as an age-related disease the is a result of swelling or inflammation of the central nervous system. In this case, inflammation which is the second term use does not only refer to swelling but also bacterial destruction caused by the oral bacteria periodontitis. Periodontitis has been described in the article as an anaerobic bacteria that causes swelling and destruction of the mouth tissue that holds the teeth. The author also used Proinflammatory cytokines to refer to signalling molecules produced by the immune and are released into the body system, causing the inflammation. The author explores the pathogenesis of AD and the mechanism of spread to the…
Response: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) I agree with my classmate piece of writing, focusing on Alzheimer’s condition. It not only explains the root cause for AD but also discusses extensive researches in stem cell therapy that will one day reverse the progression of AD. Primarily, the paper denotes primary factors necessitating Alzheimer’s disease, and that includes the tau protein. Alzheimer’s disease, an ordinary form of dementia, has additional elements causing it which involve amyloid-beta (AB) plaques and the APOE4 gene. The paper goes further by describing how the tau protein, amyloid-beta (AB) plaques and APOE4 gene develops. An amyloid-beta plaque, for instance, comes from amyloid precursor proteins generated from secretase enzymes. On the other hand, AB plaque aggregates outside neutrons which facilitate impairment of neural synapses. Lastly, tau protein forms intracellular neurofibrillary tangles. Indeed, the paper is unique in its ability to denoting their factors mentioned above’ knack for finding treatments. The writing furthermore, incorporates Duncan and Valenzuela’s “Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and stem cell therapy” article in bringing the point home. It defines the various approaches used to get the cure…
What are the various causes of kidney diseases in dogs? Ten things you should know: Under Dog kidney failure; when to euthanize. Euthanize is commonly referred to as the abstinence of extreme medical practices to put an animal to death. It could be the hardest decision for any pet owner. Seeing your beloved pet dying because of prolonged or incurable illness is heart-breaking. It is essential to get all the ailments to be treated as soon as possible for your pet so that it will not turn into a chronic disease. At times, the symptoms of the disease go unnoticed and become severe. Kidney failure is one such problem which is generally found on older dogs. The root cause of a chronic disease like kidney failure could be the ingestion of some toxin or poison. IF the initial symptoms go unnoticed, kidney failure progresses gradually. What are the various causes of kidney diseases in dogs? Several risk factors lead to dogs susceptible to kidney disease. Some of such elements are as follows: Nephrolithiasis (kidney stones) Leptospirosis Glomerulonephritis Amyloidosis (protein problem)…
Response to Asia Santos Hello Asia, I agree with you in your discussion. Indeed diabetes is one of the chronic diseases that cost the government exorbitant amounts of money. Drugs used to treat diabetes, such as insulin and DPP-4 inhibitors, are expensive to buy. Also, diabetic tests such as glycated hemoglobin tests and random blood sugar tests are expensive to families without health coverage. Another cost is the cost of hiring caregivers. Pradeepa & Mohan (2017), states that some diabetic patients may not be able to read and understand the medication dose or to maintain proper hygiene. Hence they may require a caregiver to assist them in their condition. Additionally, diabetes results in the development of other infections such as renal diseases and visual impairments, and this also presents an additional cost to the family of the diabetic patient. Diabetes, if not treated at early stages, may drain families economically, and there it is advisable for individuals to attend regular diabetes screening tests in order to prevent future negative impacts (Kähm et.al. 2018). The family may spend a lot of…
Technological Risks in Healthcare This paper analyzes the risk associated with the rising technology in healthcare Risks Associated With the Rise in Technology The use of sophisticated health technology in hospitals is expected to minimize mistakes and enhance the quality of care, but expanded use of health IT technology entails its own set of risks for health care providers. Theoretically, moving to EHRs ought to change everything. Instead of a dynamic storage system, many networks do not have interconnectedness, which means that they cannot communicate with others (Jones, 2018). This lack of contact can often endanger the safety of patients. Despite the rise of electronic health records (EHR), the safe and reliable handling of patient information is becoming more difficult for hospitals (Krummel, 2019). Clinical staff and business associates may place patients in danger by data entry errors. Issues that involve the unintended insertion of patient data into the wrong medical record, pre-population models with information for which is not essential to a patient, or lack of details due to system problems and data availability (Jones, 2018). To prevent these…
Surveillance and Intervention for Non-communicable diseases With the increased deaths and disabilities across the world due to non-communicable diseases, there is a need to implement a public health surveillance system to mitigate this problem (World Health Organization, 2003). For instance, in a diabetes education and control setting, a public surveillance system will help in the systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data regarding diabetes risk factors, prevention, treatment, and management. According to the Chronic Disease Surveillance STEPS Approach (2019) film, the surveillance system plays a significant role in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice. For a diabetic control setting, the surveillance system I will design will be aligned to collecting substantive data on how many people are developing and have died due to diabetes and how much illness for morbidity is due to diabetes. The system will also collect data on the prevalence and incidence of non-risk factors. Death data will be collected from chronic disease registries, health surveys, and medical records (Remington et al., 2010). The system’s data and interpretation will be based on diabetes…
Raynaud’s Disease Introduction Raynaud’s disease is a condition, which is not familiar to many people around the world. The disease is associated with stress or cold conditions, which bring spasms in the blood vessels, thus restricting the flow of blood to ears, nose, toes, and fingers. The result of this situation is changing the body parts to be extremely cold or turning to purple or blue color. However, there are possibilities of the changed parts to return to their normal conditions when blood begins flowing into them. Raynaud’s disease is explored to act as an artifact to provide an understanding that students have demonstrated the attainment of competent skills in scientific literacy. This insight is gained through the analysis of Raynaud’s disease concerning the description of the pathology, the normal anatomy, and the major body system affected, mechanism of pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment. Description of the pathology Scientifically, Raynaud’s disease is denoted as ray-NOHZ in which the illness is known to cause various body parts, such as toes and fingers, to feel cold and numb in response to stress and…
Use of Coercion in Mental Health Introduction According to the article written back in 2014 by Marit Helene Hem, Bert Molewijk & Reidar Pedersen which addresses, “Ethical challenges in connection with the use of coercion in mental healthcare,” defines several aspects such as coercion in mental healthcare. To them, coercive practices ethical challenges as it involves acting against the autonomy of an individual. In most cases, coercion, according to the law and regulation in healthcare, is the practice of forcing another party to act involuntarily by the use of force or threats. Generally, it involves pain or injury or psychological harm to enhance the creditability of the threat. The goal of this essay is to elaborate on the ethical dilemmas psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner faces in their line of duty and provides ethical decisions that might address the ethical dilemma faced. The state law and regulation in Maryland provide room for patients to make decisions on when, where, and how and with whom they should receive treatment (Hem, Gjerberg, Husum & Pedersen, 2018). Therefore, every client in the healthcare premise needs to…
Drug abuse and mental health issues Drugs and substance abuse among youth is the root cause ofa lot of mental health issues. As a registered nurse, I would advocate for creating community health education programs that will directly address the root causes of mental health anddrug abuse issues. The programcan be designed such that its main objectives are to prevent community members from engaging in drug and substance abuse.I would suggest that the program should center itsplan on reducing mental illness at an early stage by monitoring all community member who is already engaging in drug and substance abuse Communicable Disease Measles is an infectiousdisease that infects the respiratory tract then spreads to the whole body.Paramyxovirus family virus causes it.Due to widespread vaccination campaigns bythe WHO, UNICEF, and other stakeholders, measles is close to being eradicated in developed nations.As it is spread through direct contact and air, infants, unvaccinated people and persons with underdeveloped immunity are the groups of people thatreport new cases of infections I would advise the community to ensure that frequent campaign is carried out so that…
Healthcare Rationing What exactly does that mean? What is rationing our healthcare based off of (ex: age, worth to society, community engagement), Rationing healthcare means denying the patients possible beneficial healthcare services. A decision is made on what services and goods are to be restricted and which patients should have access to limited services (YouTube [Video], (n.d.). Rationing healthcare is unavoidable, and this is done based on age, the well-being of the society, the engagement of the community, what the government insurance is willing to pay for, and the willingness and the ability to pay by the insurance provider. And in your opinion, does it make sense to ration healthcare on these factors? I think rationing healthcare basing on these factors makes sense because it is practically hard to provide healthcare services to all the people that require it because there are limited resources while the demands are unlimited. Having this priority set and rationing can help in the proper utilization of the available budgets. What age brings the most considerable number of health problems? As any people turn 85 years…