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Cards (18)

  • Asthma - Is a condition in which your airways narrow and swell and may produce extra mucus
  • Allergy-induced asthma
    triggered by airborne substances, such as pollen, mold ,sporse , cockroach waste or particles of skin and dried saliva shed by pets
  • Occupational asthma
    Triggered by workplace irritants such as chemical fumes , gases and dust
  • Exercise-induced asthma
    Which may be worse when the air is cold and dry
  • allergy- is a misguided reaction to foreign substance by the immune system.
    -medications: penicillin
  • Diabetes- mellitus refers yo a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood sugar (glucose)
  • Cardiovascular disease- diabetes dramatically increases the risk of various cardiovascular , including coronary artery disease with chest pain (angina)
  • Heart attack,stroke and narrowing of arteries (atherosclerosis)
  • Nerve damage- (neuropathy) excess sugar can injure the walls of the tiny blood vessel (capillaries)
  • kidney damage- the kidneys contain millions of tiny blood vessel clusters (glomeruli) that fillers waste from your blood.
  • Eye damage (retinopathy) diabetes - can damage the blood vessel of the retina potentially leaidng to blindness.
  • Cancer- refers to any one of the large number of diseases chara by the development of abnormal cells
  • Unusual immune system reactions- in some cases the body immune system may react to the presence of cancer by attacking healthy cells, called PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME
  • Cancer that spreads- or cancer advanced, it may spread (melastasize) to other parts of the body where cancer spreads depends on the same way it spread of cancer
  • Arthritis- is the swelling and tenderness of one or more of your joints.
    • most common type of arthritis: OSTEOARTHRITIS RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
  • Osteoarthritis- involves wear-and-tear damage to your joints carti
  • Rheumatoid arthritis- the body’s immune system, attacks the lining of the joint capsule
  • A though membrane that encloses all the joint parts (synovial membrane) - becomes inflammed and swollen, the disease process can eventually destroy cartilage and bone within joint