For this assignment you will need to pick a disease that aff

For this assignment, you will need to pick a disease that affects the nervous, cardiovascular, or respiratory system and then answer the following questions about the disease in an essay format. To answer these questions, you must use at least 3 outside sources. These sources can be primary sources such as a journal article that reports the results of original research or a secondary source such as a review article or book. You may NOT use a web page. Each question should be answered thoroughly and in a straightforward manner. You can either copy and paste your essay into the answer area or you can upload a file.

Please answer the following questions in your essay:

1. What is the name or names of the disease?

2. What are the symptoms of the disease?

3. What is/ are the organ system/s involved in the disease?

4. What has gone wrong in the disease? Be sure to describe the mechanism of the disease. This part of your answer may include a description of how the system works normally and should also include cause and effect for how things go wrong.

5. Who is susceptible to this disease? Does it strike one part of hte population more frequently than others? Be sure to include percentages.

6. Does this disease need to be treated, or is it something a person can live with indefinitely?

7. What is the current standard for curing this disease or reducing its symptoms and how does it work? Be sure to include the mechanism.

8. Give the citations for the 3 sources you used.

9. What are the credentials of the authors of your sources (ie: is the author a medical doctor , a Ph.d., etc.)? In other words, why should you believe them?   

Solution

1. What is the name or names of the disease?

Cardiovascular disease - angina pectoris & coronary artery disease due to atherosclerosis

2. What are the symptoms of the disease?

Formation of emobolus or clogging of arteries is leading to ischaemic artery disease result in angina pectoris and this clogging of arteries is due to \"high density lipoproteins and VLDLs & cholesterol ball\" to from plaques so that prevention of oxygenated blood supply to the heart muscle cell. This plaque inside the arteries is known as atherosclerotic plaque that causes \"coronary artery disease\" besides atherosclerosis. Symptoms are chest pain and severe sudden heart attack, high blood pressure

3. What is/ are the organ system/s involved in the disease?

Blood vessels and heart muscle cells

The major causes of angina pectoris has explained as follows and rationale:

The main treatment as rationale to angina is to relieve immediate pain in the chest followed by care management. Nitroglycerine is potent vasodilator given sublingual route for angina patients with regular nursing care. Calcium-channels blockers are going to reduce heart rate by blocking L-type and T-type calcium channels whereas beta-blockers are going to reduce the heart rate by antagonizing beta-adrenergic receptors on the heart so that adrenaline is not going to bind with it

5. which set of lab would you order to confirm your diagnosis?

Answer: Angina lab or angioplasty lab, in which electrocardiogram and chest X-ray is going to be performed to diagnose presence of angina pectoris due to ischameia