Anemia Iron deficiency anemia is a blood disease where your body does not have sufficient iron to make red blood cells. Red blood cells are important for the body to provide oxygen to your brain and tissues. If the body does not have sufficient iron‚ the blood provided to the brain and tissues cannot be carried efficiently. The human body normally gets iron from the consumption of high iron food‚ and or from old red blood cells. Iron deficiency anemia can occur when the body loses blood cells at
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Hello Shyam‚ Thank you for your informative post about iron-deficiency anemia. Anemia is not a disease but an indication of an underlying illness‚ in which there is a decreased in the number of the red blood cells (RBCs)‚ the amount of hemoglobin (Hgb)‚ and/or the volume of RBCs (Sabol et al.‚ 2010). As we age‚ Hgb levels decrease‚ increasing the incidence of anemia (Sabol et al.‚ 2010). Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is the insufficiency in iron dietary intake and/or in iron absorption from different
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Iron Deficiency AnemiaWhat is it and what are its causes?Anemia is an insufficient amount of red blood cells in the bloodstream and iron deficiency anemia is where there is a lack of iron in the blood. You need iron in your blood to make hemoglobin‚ which contributes in distributing oxygen to tissues from the lungs. One of the most common causes of iron deficiency anemia is an inadequate intake of iron in your diet. Another possible cause of iron deficiency anemia is bleeding‚ be this because of
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AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome I am doing a report on AIDS‚ I don’t know much about AIDS but I will tell you what I know. I know that it is transmitted by sexual contact‚blood‚needles‚children during/before birth. I also know it affects the immune system directly‚ It is caused by the virus HIV which they have no cure for either AIDS or HIV at the current moment‚ but they are doing serious research on them. I call it the "Generation X Disease" because it mostly affects my sex- oriented
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The effect of nutrient deficiency and toxicity in plants Nutrient Micronutrient Nitrogen (N) Deficiency effect Toxicity effect Leaves become dark green and susceptible to drought‚ pests and diseases as well as failed yield for fruits and seed crops. Limit the uptake of other nutrient‚ which is magnesium or potassium. Older leaves at the bottom of plant will start to become yellowish (chlorosis) while the rest of the plant’s leaves will be light green. Calcium (Ca) Newer leaves at the top of the
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome‚ or AIDS‚ is a recently recognized disease. It is caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‚ which attacks selected cells in the IMMUNE SYSTEM and produces defects in function. These defects may not be apparent for years. They lead‚ however‚ to a severe suppression of the immune system ’s ability to resist harmful organisms. This leaves the body open to invasion by various infections‚ which are therefore called opportunistic diseases‚ and
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AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Timur Eren Spring 96 HPE12 BACKGROUND Since the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981‚ through mid-1994 more than 402‚000 AIDS cases and more than 241‚000 deaths have been reported in the United States alone. This is only the tip of the iceberg of HIV infection‚ however. It is estimated that nearly 1 million Americans had been infected with the virus through the mid-1990s but had not yet developed clinical symptoms. In addition‚ although the vast majority
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VARYING EFFECTS OF ENZYME CONCENTRATION ON REACTION RATES OF MALATE DEHYDROGENASE CELL BIOLOGY 13 NOVEMBER 2007 Enzymes are biological catalysts. They are proteins that speed up reactions with low concentrations. These enzyme proteins are made up of linkages of amino acids. The links coil‚ and coil again forming a tertiary structure. This structure has a groove in it called an active site. The active site is
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Software metrics are meant to be measures in the scientific sense of the term‚ with the goal of giving objective views on software related objects and phenomena. The well known problem of software development is that there is very little scientific foundation to the subject. Electrical engineers can use physics as the foundation of their activities. As a result the measures they use in their daily work‚ such as Volt and Ampere‚ correspond to well defined phenomena (electric potential‚ electric
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while an example of a fungal pathogenic disease is candidiasis. Deficiency diseases A deficiency disease is caused by a deficiency of vital nutrients in the diet‚ especially a mineral or vitamin. The disease could be as a result of an insufficient intake of nutrients‚ their digestion‚ their absorption or their utilization within the body. A nutritional disease is normally connected to chronic malnutrition. Examples of deficiency diseases are scurvy and rickets. Acute poisoning can also result
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