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- 1081: Celiac Sprue Disease
- ... as elimination diets, are instituted. However, symptoms may improve spontaneously, and patients may appear to "outgrow" the disease until they are in their 20s or 30s. Occasionally latent celiac sprue is activated by a metabolic stress, such as infection, pregnancy, or surgery. Interestingly, about ¼ of adult-onset sprue patients have a history of diarrhea during childhood. A doctor who suspects sprue may ask the patient to collect stool samples to determine ...
- 1082: Blood Pressure
- ... primary hypertension is unknown. It just happens but however, there are certain risk factors or associations such as hereditary factors, race, age, environmental and life-style factors (where you live, salt and other chemicals, weight, stress, alcohol, lack of exercise). The difference between primary and secondary hypertension is that we know the causes of secondary hypertension. Usually, the causes of secondary hypertension include renal artery stenosis (or other cause of increased ...
- 1083: Big Brother, Little Sister Computer Monitoring
- ... will be used mostly as a tool. One example of monitoring as a weapon is seen when a woman took an extra minute in the bathroom was threatened with loosing her job. With this added stress she suffered a nervous breakdown. The Company insisted that they were not "spying" but were only trying to improve their business (DeTienne 465). If monitoring is not used correctly businesses will suffer with increases in ...
- 1084: Creatine 2
- ... tendons and ligaments are adapted to the increase in muscle size. Long-term consequences of daily creatine ingestion, especially in high dosages, are currently unknown. There is a strong possibility that excess creatine can put stress on the kidneys. Individuals with kidney disease should not use creatine. The most benefit will likely be noticed by body builders or anyone who wishes to have more muscle mass. It is still unclear whether ...
- 1085: Climate Change (term Paper)
- ... in the polar regions), the mainstream logic does rather suggest a rise to the tune of several centimetres per decade. In time, this would surely flood very low-lying coastal areas, and increase erosion and stress on shorelines around the world. This knowledge, however, is of little comfort or interest to most people. The only fact that can perhaps involve people and ease their tensions is knowing which particular locations will ...
- 1086: Crude Operatons - Oil And The Environment
- ... it is clear that our marine resources are overstressed. In a short while, the full effects of depleted oceans will reach us. Countries that rely on the oceans for their economy will simply collapse. The stress that is placed on the oceans leaves a major impact on the creatures that inhabit the area. One of the leaders in the oil industry, Shell, "…has not improved on it's environmental…performance in ...
- 1087: Causes Of Schizophrenia
- ... they are exposed to noxious factors in the environment such as drugs. This model' is similar to that already proven in the causation of diseases like diabetes and raised blood pressure. It is important to stress that statistical analysis does not support the presence of a single genetic factor in this scheme. Rather, the inheritance is probably due to several factors which may be inherited from either side of one's ...
- 1088: Cardiovascular Conditioning
- ... of course, is not the case. Overtraining is not only harmful, it is self-defeating as well. There is a good chance of experiencing internal fatigue, this in turn can lead to sports injuries, especially stress-related injuries. Overtraining may leave the athlete constantly tired, negatively affecting their performance. Being constantly tired and not being able to match the past performance achieved, or not being able to experience performance improvement can ...
- 1089: Avalanches
- ... sure it is perfectly vertical. Next, you weigh exactly ten pounds of snow in a sack on a little portable scale. You must then take the sack and drop it from 10cm and check for stress cracks in the layers. Continue dropping the sack at 10cm increments until you reach 60cm. Checking after every drop for cracks. The specialist have broken the safety scale down to this; cracks below 30cm is ...
- 1090: Alcoholism 4
- ... has a family pattern experts disagree on whether it is due to genetics or behavior patterns learned from parents (Kestler 12-13). Alcoholism has been variously thought of as a symptom of psychological or social stress, although, unlike psychoactive drugs, alcohol is accepted in society. More recently it has come to be viewed as a complex disease entirely in its own right. Alcoholism usually develops over a period of years. Early ...
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