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- 6031: Iron Increases Heart Disease
- ... persons chances for CAD. Heart disease usually affects persons over age 60, but can be seen in people who are much younger for various reasons. This disease remains the number one cause of hospitalization and death in the adult population in western society (McCance and Huether, 1994). The purpose of this literature review is to investigate research dealing with the subject of increased serum iron levels and the prevalence of CAD ...
- 6032: Internet Security 2
- ... computers (Dyson 338). If they are caught, they can be prosecuted by the bank and the federal government and spend many years in jail for this serious offense. Hacking into a bank almost equals the penalty for murdering someone. This is why only the premier hackers will attempt this act. Hackers usually do not affect a normal person on the Internet. If a person does not run any programs that would ...
- 6033: Inhalents
- ... refrigerant, felt tip makers, spray paint, air freshener, butane and even cooking spray. Inhalants can really harm the body. Almost all inhalants can cause the body to slow down. The user can suffer Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome this means that the user can die the first time he or she uses an inhalant. Inherits can effect the other part of the body like the heart, liver, kidney, brain, bone marrow and ...
- 6034: Hysteria
- ... prisons were filled with more that 150 men surrounding Salem; their names had been cried out by tormented young girls as the cause of their pain. All would await trial for a crime punishable by death, the practice of witchcraft (D Amario 1). Many theories exist as to why these girls behaved as they did and caused the witchcraft hysteria. One theory states: they had eaten bread contaminated with a hallucinogenic ...
- 6035: Hurricanes 3
- ... at the moment total prevention is virtually impossible. While in EMDC s hazards may be just an inconvenience (even if it is a very expensive one), whilst it is still a matter of life or death in the developing world. Referring back to Philip Whitfields remark at the beginning, it seems man still remains virtually powerless against nature ,even as we approach the millennium.
- 6036: How Dams Affect Salmon Migration
- ... the dams would be to "spill" the water over the dams and allow the salmon over each dam without having to maneuver through the dams harmful turbines. More than fifteen percent of migrating smolt face death at each dam along the Columbia river. Many of these deaths are caused by turbines. In 1960, the cumulative mortality rate due to turbines at all the main-stream dams was estimated to reach seventy ...
- 6037: Hiv
- ... is having a profound impact on many aspects of medicine and health care. The U.S. Public Health Service estimates that in 1993, the lifetime cost of treating a person with AIDS from infection to death is approximately $119,000. Outpatient care, including medication, visits to doctors, home health aids, and long-term care, accounted for approximately 32 percent of the total cost. Persons exposed to HIV may have difficulty in ...
- 6038: Hepatitis B Virus
- ... people contract hepatitis B in the United States. A highly infectious virus that attacks the liver causes the disease. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection can lead to severe illness, liver damage, and, in some cases, death. It can take, on average, 60-120 days from the time of exposure for symptoms of hepatitis B infection to develop. However, only 50% of adults infected with hepatitis B ever show any symptoms, with ...
- 6039: Hepatitis B
- ... so-called chronic carriers, are at an increased risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (primary liver cancer). Although this type of cancer is relatively rare in the United States, it is the leading cause of cancer death in the world, primarily because HBV infection is endemic in the East. Chronic infection with HBV can be either "replicative" or "non-replicative." In non-replicative infection, the rate of viral replication in the liver ...
- 6040: Hepatitis
- ... the virus itself was not isolated until 1963. One hundred and seventy six million people are carrying the surface antigen of this one virus globally, and the infection causes a vast amount of illness and death, including most of the fatal cases of liver cell cancer.3 To prevent the wide spread of this disease, a rush for vaccination in the elementary schools for children in the K-6 levels had ...
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