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The proximate cause of disease, by induction from the laws of animated nature with an examination of the theories of Townsend, Reich, Darwin, Rush and Wilson /Mace, John. January 1802 (has links)
Thesis (M.D.) -- University of Pennsylvania, 1802. / Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
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A cross sectional empirical study of illness conceptualization among lay and professional populationsSiverhus, Scott William. January 1982 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-62).
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Disease as drama dramatistic constructs and models of redemption in covering illness in Glamour magazine /Pesheva, Ekaterina D., January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (December 18, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Assessment of the quality of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) reporting system, Mpumalanga, South AfricaHarris, Bernice Nerine. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (MMed. (Faculty of Medicine))--University of Pretoria, 2003. / Summary in Afrikaans and English.
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TOXICOLOGY OF THE PULMONARY ENDOTHELIUM.LAFRANCONI, WALTER MARK. January 1983 (has links)
To study the pulmonary responses to toxic insult, the biochemical and physiological effects of a known pulmonary toxicant (monocrotaline) were investigated. Monocrotaline is a pyrrolizidine alkaloid obtained from the seeds of Crotalaria spectabilis. When this alkaloid is administered to rats in their drinking water (20 mg/1) for 3 weeks, the lung is damaged, resulting in pulmonary hypertension, inhibition of serotonin transport by the pulmonary endothelium, and right heart hypertrophy. Preceeding the hypertrophy is a doubling of the mass of the lung and right ventricle. The change in mass of the lung preceeds that of the right ventricle. The increases in both organs is characterized by elevated RNA but not DNA. The lung mass increase is not accompanied by changes in collagenous proteins but is accompanied by an 86% increase in total lipids. The right ventricle however, responds to monocrotaline with a 400% increase in collagen protein and no change in lipid content, thereby indicating the lung and right ventricle respond differently to monocrotaline. Time course experiments established that the earliest observable event in monocrotaline induced lung damage is pulmonary edema which develops by day 5 and is resolved by day 10. Monocrotaline metabolites generated by an isolated liver and perfused through an isolated lung do not cause pulmonary edema even at concentrations of monocrotaline metabolites near 1 mM. These metabolites do however, alter the pulmonary endothelial transport of serotonin while other endothelial functions such as norepinephrine transport, angiotensin convertining enzyme and 5'-nucleotidase activities are unchanged. The effect of monocrotaline metabolites on pulmonary endothelial cell transport of serotonin is attenuated when the isolated livers are perfused under conditions which inhibit the formation of metabolites. Therefore, one of the pulmonary effects of monocrotaline that takes weeks to develop in vivo, inhibition of pulmonary endothelial transport of serotonin, can be observed under in vitro conditions. These results also directly demonstrate that the pulmonary damage caused by monocrotaline is a result of hepatic metabolism of monocrotaline to a pneumotoxic form.
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Cardio-metabolic disease and associated risk factors in the Johannesburg Health DistrictMoodley, Nishila 17 January 2012 (has links)
Introduction: The global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has long been neglected, with the omission of NCDs from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) bearing testament to this. The growing prevalence of chronic cardio-metabolic diseases in South Africa places huge demands on the health system. This study sought to determine the community prevalence of these cardio-metabolic diseases and associated risk factors in Chiawelo, Soweto – a township undergoing rapid urbanization in the Johannesburg Health District.
Methods: The study comprised 337 participants: 124 male and 213 female. This was a community based cross sectional survey using questionnaires, anthropometric and biochemical measurement of HbA1c. Cluster sampling techniques identified eligible adult participants. Regression models were performed to identify factors associated with disease. Ethical approval to conduct the study was obtained from the University of the Witwatersrand and written informed consent was obtained from the participants.
Results: The study population was black with middle to higher socio-economic status and education levels below Grade 12 mostly. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in this study population was 14%, with many undiagnosed and those with disease poorly controlled. More than half the study population had hypertension (HPT) (58%) and most were poorly controlled. This was a markedly obese population (39%) with 54% of women having a body mass index (BMI) categorised as obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2). Conclusions: The burden of chronic cardio-metabolic diseases in the Johannesburg Health District has been grossly underestimated. The prevalence of HPT and DM was high and both diseases were poorly controlled with obesity reaching epidemic proportions. Countering the burden of disease involves targeting females as a high risk priority group, engaging the community in health promotion and developing a NCD surveillance system. Clinically, it is the findings of this study to support the screening of cardio-metabolic diseases from as early as 30 years of age in males and 40 years of age in females.
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Describe cardio-metabolic diseases and the associated cost in a district hospital in the North West ProvinceMoalosi, Derrick Meriting 10 1900 (has links)
A research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of
the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Public Health in the field of Hospital Management
OCTOBER 2014 / BACKGROUND: Gelukspan District Hospital is situated in the Ngaka Modiri
Molema District in the North West Province. The majority of patients admitted
in the adult medical wards of this Hospital are due to two conditions namely
(a) HIV/ AIDS and (b) Cardio-metabolic diseases. The Hospital regularly
analyse data related to the HIV/ AIDS patients for HIV/ AIDS conditional grant.
The information related to cardio-metabolic diseases are seldom analysed by
the Hospital management, although there is a belief within the Hospital that
more than one thirds of the patients admitted in these two wards are due to
cardio–metabolic diseases. This study was planned against this background
to systematically analyse the routinely collected data from the Hospital
information system. The results of the study would hopefully provide the
estimation of the prevalence of these diseases at a health facility level and the
cost for managing these conditions.
AIM: To describe the profiles of patients admitted of cardio–metabolic
diseases in the Gelukspan District Hospital in the North West Province during
one year study period (from 01 April 2010 to 31 March 2011).
METHODOLOGY: This was a cross-sectional study based on retrospective
review of routinely collected data from the Adult Medical Wards of the
Gelukspan District Hospital during the one year study period (1 April 2010 to
31 March 2011). No primary data was collected for this study. The study
variables included: the number of subjects with cardio-metabolic diseases
among the subjects who were admitted in the Medical wards of the Hospital
during one year study period; their profiles and the type and cost of laboratory
tests performed for these patients at the time of admission. Permission to
conduct the research at the Hospital was obtained from the North West
Department of the Health and the University of the Witwatersrand ‘Human
Research Ethics Committee (Medical) before commencement of the study.
RESULTS: Number of admissions in male and female medical wards for noncommunicable
diseases was 558. There were almost same number of female
(n= 287) and male (271) admissions. The result showed that both males and
females suffer equally from cardio-metabolic diseases. The age – group
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analysis showed almost a third of the subjects were below 50 years age and
another third was above 65 years of age. More than 20% of the population
were pensioners representing the age distribution of the study cohort. The
majority of the subjects were black (97.8%) and unemployed (98%)
representing the demographics of the catchment population. The majority of
the women were single (55.4%). There was no significant difference between
male and female patients in terms of primary clinical diagnoses. Thirty-nine
percent of the males (n=108) and 56% (163) females stayed more than 3
days (the norms of average length of stay for District hospitals. The case
fatality rate was 19.5% probably high in a district hospital setting, this implies
that probably these patients were not managed properly at the PHC level and
or at this The laboratory tests done at the time of admission included random
and fasting blood glucose, and creatinine. No HbA1C, lipogram and other
renal function tests were done at the time of admission contrary to the norms
and guidelines for management of cardio-metabolic diseases. The laboratory
test result showed the possibility of significant comorbidity among the patients.
Fourteen percent of the subject probably had nephropathy.
CONCLUSION: This was the first study conducted in this Hospital to
systematically evaluate management of a particular group of patients.
Hopefully, this study would assist the Hospital management to improve the
management of patients admitted in this Hospital.
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Environmental effects upon herpesvirus infections in sea turtlesKleese, William Carl January 1979 (has links)
No description available.
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A computational framework for modeling the spread of pathogens and generating effective containment strategies in weakly connected island modelsShaw, Lucas Ray January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming, 2007. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 10, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-102).
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Ontology based personalized modeling for chronic disease risk evaluation and knowledge discovery an integrated approach : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the requirements for [the] degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 2009 /Verma, Anju. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (PhD) -- AUT University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (270 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.) in the Archive at the City Campus (T 616.0440112 VER)
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