Work Stress
.... stress, however, each
person responds to stress very differently. Their response is dependent on how
each person reacts to stress emotionally, mentally, and physically. There are,
however, common effects of stress for most people on the physical and mental
body.
2.1 Physical Effects
The researcher Blyth in 1973 identified a list of diseases which have a fairly
high causal relationships with stress. His evidence was obtained through
interviews with medical experts, review of reports by the World Health
Organization and consultations with the J.R. Geigy Pharmaceutical Company. The
following is a list of some of the illnes .....
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Chinese Medicine
.... method
of breaking things into component parts to understand the whole. This method
has been applied in China, but not to the same level as in the West. Analysis
is one of the important features of all western modern science and technology.
In fact, the analytical approach is the basis of western medicine, and it is
part of the Western mindset.(4)
Analysis is not as important to Chinese medicine as in the West. The
ancient Chinese did use analysis in their investigation of the human body, but
to a lesser degree. Analysis provided some important insights into the workings
of the human body. The ancient Chinese knew, f .....
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Acquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome
.... currently carry the virus. That figure is increasing. And what
occurred there will, if no cure is found, most likely occur here among
heterosexual folks.
AIDS was first seen as a disease of gay males in this country.
This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days
before AIDS had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per year. This
figure was much higher than common practice among heterosexual (straight)
men or women. In addition, it turned out that rectal sex was a
particularly effective way to transmit the disease, and rectal sex is a
common practic .....
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Attention Deficit Disorder
.... from the lower
brain, which regulated arousal and screens incoming messages from within and
outside of the body. The limbic system , a group of related nervous system
structures located in the midbrain and linked to emotions and feelings, also
sends messages to the frontal lobes. Finally, the frontal lobes are suspected to
be the site of working memory, the place where information about the immediate
environment is considered for memory storage, planning, and future-directed
behavior. Scientist believe the activity in the frontal lobes is depressed in
people with ADD. Studies show a decrease in the ability of the ADD brain .....
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AIDS: Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
.... some drawbacks like them getting samples messed
up and it getting mixed up in the mail or other stupid things like that, like if
you really don't have the disease but you get someone elses reading who does
have HIV.
Thats about all I know about this horrible disease,so ill move on to
what I found when I reaserched this topic. I went on the internet to find some
of my information, and i used different books the librarian recommended me to
read on AIDS and HIV.
AIDS appears to be constantly changing it's genetic structure so it
makes it very hard to find a cure for it, and very hard for the body to make
antibodies. This makes dev .....
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AIDS And HIV
.... probably occurred in 1977.
By early 1982, 15 states, the District of Columbia, and 2 foreign
countries had reports of AIDS cases, however the total remained low: 158 men and
1 woman. Surprising enough more then 90 percent of the men were homosexual or
bisexual. Knowing this more then 70 percent of AIDS victims are homosexual or
bisexual men, and less then 5 percent are heterosexual adults. Amazing enough
by December of 1983 there were 3,000 cases of AIDS that had been reported in
adults from 42 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, and the
disease had been recognized in 20 other countries. Recognizing the Extent .....
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AIDS And You
.... percent of
the adults currently carry the virus. That figure is increasing. And what
occurred there will, if no cure is found, most likely occur here among
heterosexual folks.
AIDS was first seen as a disease of gay males in this country. This was
a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days before AIDS
had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per year. This figure was
much higher than common practice among heterosexual (straight) men or women.
In addition, it turned out that rectal sex was a particularly effective
way to transmit the disease, and rectal sex is a co .....
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Albinism
.... and generally less severe visual difficulties.
Tests were done on the hair roots of individuals with albinism, to tell these
types of albinism apart. However, these hair tests cannot identify types of
albinism, particularly in young children, whose pigment systems are immature.
Therefore hair tests are not helpful in predicting the extent of visual
disability of a child.
"Ty-Neg" (also called Type 1A) albinism results from a genetic defect in
an enzyme called tyrosinase. Tyrosinase helps the body to change the amino acid
tyrosine into pigment. The genetic defect that causes albinism in other types of
albinism is unknow .....
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Alzheimer's Disease
.... have "paired helixes" include Parkinson's disease, Down's
Syndrome, and Dementia Pugilistica. Scientists are not sure how the paired
helixes are related in these very different diseases. Neuritic Plaques are
patches of clumped material lying outside the bodies of nerve cells in the brain.
They are mainly found in the cerebral cortex, but have also been seen in other
areas of the brain. At the core of each of these plaques is a substance called
amyloid, an abnormal protein not usually found in the brain. This amyloid core
is surrounded by cast off fragments of dead or dying nerve cells. The cell
fragments include dying mito .....
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gherig's Disease)
.... fatigue
Twitching and cramping, sometimes severely
As ALS progresses, all voluntary muscles become useless. The patient
cannot eat, breathe or communicate with others. Total life support may be the
only thing keeping them alive. ALS can lead to total paralysis.
Although there is no cure, medications such as siazepam can assist with
controlling spasms and muscle cramps and saliva. Siazepam can also help control
muscle twitching. Physical therapy is important for patients with ALS to
maintain flexibility in joints and to prevent contractures, or fixations of
muscles.
Diagnosis of ALS is difficult, since there .....
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Anabolic Steroids
.... those taken orally and those
injected. The immediate effects of both are mood swings of many different kinds.
In one study, physicians Ian Wilson, Arthur Prang, Jr., and Patricio Lara found
that four out of five men suffering from dippresion when given a steroid
suffered from dillusions. A research team from Great Britian Found that a
patient given steroids became dizzy, dissoriented, and incoherent. Physicians
William Layman and William Annitto have had a case of a young man who was
diagnosed as schizophrenic took steriods to help with his wieghtlifting. After
taking these drugs he suffered severe deppresion and anxiety and ha .....
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AIDS And Its Causes
.... the
reported cases. This includes 5% who were intravenuous drug as well. (2).
Intravenous drug users with no previous history of homosexuality compose the
next largest group, about 23% of all patients. (3). Hemophiliacs (the people who
have inborn disease characterized by excesssive bleeding and occuring only in
males) especially those who received factor VIII concentrate before 1985, about
1% of all patients. (4). Recipents of blood and blood components who are not
hemophiliacs but who received tranfusions of HIV-infected whole blood components
(e.g. platelet, plasma) account for 2 %. (5). Other high risk groups: 86% of
patients .....
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