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Evaluating Your Own Risk for Inherited Disease
For this Assignment you will think about your individual health and health risks. What genetic diseases or problems might you face during your lifetime? Predisposition to heart disease, breast cancer, diabetes? You may consider your own health risks or those of other individuals such as a family member or friend. Then, in a paper of 750–1,000 words, address the following issues:
- What genetic diseases or problems were determined to be potential issues?
- Provide an introduction of the disease, outlining the major signs/symptoms of the disorder and the reason why this was selected as a genetic/inherited disease?
- Research the mode of inheritance for this disease/trait? Why? If you are not able to find a specific mode of inheritance, provide a hypothesis for the mode of inheritance. Explain your thinking here very thoroughly; this should take up about half of the length of the Assignment.
- What other information would help you draw better conclusions about this disease?
- What problems did you encounter in gathering information about your family's history or that of the person you interviewed?
- If you were to have a child, what could you tell him or her about his/her chances of inheriting the diseases based upon your research about the inheritability of the trait you are researching?
Finally, visit the KU library by clicking on the “Library” link on the KU Campus homepage. Select the option to perform an advanced search. Find two references that pertain to the disease/trait you selected. Record the methods that you used to discover these sources, and answer the following questions:
- Which search term(s) did you use?
- Did you use combinations of search terms?
- Which methods resulted in the most “hits” or results?
- Did you refine any of your searches? In other words, did you perform an initial search and then further narrow the results?
**** HEART DISEASE, KIDNEY FAILURE - 3 FAMILY MEMBERS ON DIALYSIS, DIABETICS, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I KNOW FOR SURE THAT IS IN MY FAMILY
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Evaluating Own Risk for Inherited Disease
The personal health and the health dangers are the basic concept in the life that requires
to be taken for an affluent living standard constantly. Every individual in life suffers diverse
kinds of health matters or problems and treatment of ailments. Although, some illness are
recognized as incurable in the person’s life which is understood as the genetic or the diseases that
are inherited. Thus, the genetic illness or the problems may be encountered in a life time are the
kidney failure since this disease has been our lineage problem from long-time.
Determined Genetic Disease to be Potential Issues
Kidney failure was one of the significant dangerous genetic diseases that were
determined to be impending issues of the health. The illness was chosen since my three family
members are suffering from the disease. In the medical terms, chronic kidney disease (CKD) can
also progress slowly and, originally, show few signs (Grams, Morgan, et al.). CKD can be the
long term result of irreparable acute illness or part of a disease development.
Introduction of the Disease
Kidney failure, similarly as the renal insufficiency, or the renal failure, is Kidney failure,
similarly called the renal failure or renal inadequacy, is a medical disorder of impaired kidney
role in where the kidneys fail to sufficiently filter metabolic wastes in the blood (Ortiz, Alberto,
et al.). The two chief kinds of the acute kidney failure, which is habitually reversible with
enough treatment, and chronic kidney ailment, which is always not reversible.
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In both situations, there us normally a fundamental cause. Kidney failure is normally
determined by the reduction in the rate of glomerular filtration, which is the speed at which the
blood is sifted in the glomeruli of the kidney. The state is noticed by a reduction in or the
deficiency of the production or determination of waste products (creatinine or urea) in the blood
(Grams, Morgan, et al.).
Relying on the source, and proteinuria (protein loss in the urine), and hematuria (blood
depreciation in the urine) may be noted. In the kidney failure, there might be difficulties with
raised fluid in the body (resulting to swelling), raised acid levels, higher levels of potassium,
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