While Jose and Jorge are identical twins, their lives could not have been any more different. They have different health determinants to their unfortunate diseases that differ from each other. The case study of Jorge and Jose emphasizes the idea that your zip code determines your health more than your genetic code. Just a quick reminder, Jose is the twin who grew up in a largely improvised family, while Jorge is the twin who grew up in an upper-middle-class family. Since both brothers have asthma it can be assumed that the brothers have asthma in their genetics, however, needed to be triggered. Jose because of the geographical conditions he was exposed to as a child, he developed asthma from playing outdoors triggered from hot misty days. …show more content…
Asthma has a significant impact on society, affecting over 6 million children under the age of 18 in the United States alone. Reasonable ways to control this disease are medications such as inhalers and spirometry to test the strength of your lungs. There is a myriad factor from environmental constraints, physical and the one built by humans is noted as a major factor affecting the development of asthma. Indoor air pollution is the most common form of air pollution, along with first-hand and second-hand smoking. Air pollution is often greater in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods with mold and cockroach infestations and access to medical care. Funding would come from American tax dollars, which shoots towards the CDC who created the National Asthma Control Program to help people with …show more content…
There are drugs such as Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for persons at high risk for HIV take medicine to decrease chances of getting infected. PrEP is also famous from stopping HIV from taking hold and spreading throughout your body. It is highly effective for patients with HIV, however, they must take their medicine consistently. Nevertheless, the average HIV patient can live their lives long and successfully, this is all coming from research made to help defeat HIV. The more research that comes along with looking for a cure, it makes patients look at a new hope and making their lives a lot
The last environmental factor that can cause asthma attacks is the weather. Extremely cold air, dry wind, and sudden weather changes can trigger asthma attacks. Eastern NC, including Duplin County, has been
This paper is about the homicide of Jose and Mary Louise Menendez in California in 1989 by their own sons Erik and Lyle Menendez. This paper will be discussing the investigation in the homicide, how the detectives come up with the probable cause that the brothers committed this crime, the trials, and the sentences of the brothers. This paper discussed the warrant for the brother’s therapist to use to tapes and the notes in the court about what the brothers confess about the murder, the arrest warrants, and the different of the two trial. Keyword: investigation, homicide, detectives, court Background José was born on May 16, 1944 in Havana, Cuba, the youngest son of three children to an upper-middle class family. Then in 1959 his family
The findings from this research have led me to be certain of the importance of how by just merely looking into a subject from the origin of it can make us understand the true cause of the problem. Often people believe in one thing because it was told to them as a child like “ you are just like your parents who also have asthma.” However, after examining the different triggers of asthma it is with more certainty that I believe the borough of the Bronx has to advocate for its community and the area in they live in. Without change the Bronx’s pollution will continue to affect the people and the hospitalizations will continue to be the highest in all the boroughs.
As a child he was diagnosed with asthma and allergies, and to help with the conditions he was encouraged
Twins at Newport Harbor By:133144 Newport Harbor- Most kids in high school enter freshman year and beyond on their own, but for some kids they have a twin right by their side. In America 1 in 30 people you meet is a twin and fifteen percent of them are going to elementary school, middle school, or high school according to new York times parents. “Being a twin at Newport Harbor is awful and great at the same time” explains Tristan Warmington about her experience at Newport Harbor with her twin sister Riley Warmington. Tristan and Riley Warmington are both sophomores at Newport harbor.
Physiological Processes Gas exchange occurs because of the body’s involuntary response to breathe in response to: exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen, deliver oxygen to tissues and to regulate acid-base concentrations in the bloodstream. The air travels into the nose, down the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveolar sacs then to the pulmonary capillaries. Froom the pulmonary capillaries hemoglobin picks up the oxygen molecules and travels through the arteries in the body to deliver the oxygen while picking up carbon dioxide and delivering it to the lungs through the veins and the process repeats. Since my patient has asthma along with a smaller diameter for air to pass through it causes severe inability to oxygenate the body during an asthma
There are so many different strains of HIV, the two main types are HIV-1, the most common type found worldwide. HIV-2, this is found mainly in Wedstern Africa, some cases India and Europe. IF treattment is lefted uncured it coukl take around 10 to 15 years for AIDS to develop, when HIV has severely damaged the immune system. Some damage may be cause cancer, malnutrition, and weight loss as well as organ damage. With earlydiagnosis and effective antiretroviral treatment, people with HIV can live a normal, healthy life.
My inspiration for my Famous Latino essay is Enrique Iglesias. I have selected him because he is someone who my family has been listening too for years since I was born. Enrique Iglesias full name is Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler. He was born in Madrid, Spain on May 8, 1975. His mother is Isabel Preysler and his father is Julio Iglesias.
There was no cure. Magic Johnston was told he was going to die because of HIV, and he even quit basketball because of it and lived in fear. But look at him now. He 's still alive and still has HIV. The reason people hid from Magic was that they were told one thing, that at the time they didn 't know if it was true or not.
Reading an essay must have two sets of eyes, one from a reader and another from a writer. I as a reader, found Rodriguez’s essay rude and relatable; his way for describing what happened to him shared a type of equality with me in a different perspective. On the other hand, reading his writing as a writer I can fully appreciate his way to weave ideas and enjoy vivid descriptions about his life. Rodriguez’s Essay embodies different writing techniques, such as voice and tone. His voice is direct and focus, he describes his life as plain as possible and describes each event so that the reader can follow him through his life.
Human populations have been exposed to many plagues over time which has lead the human genome to be littered with past remnants of these plagues, there is one remnant which may lead researchers to discover a new treatment for HIV, a mutation in the gene CCR5, as the allele for the mutant CCR5 gene confers resistance to HIV and the allele for the mutant CCR5 gene has been left over from a past plague that ravished northern Europe where it conferred some resistance to the plague and therefore increased in frequency which is why the mutation in the CCR5 is rare in the rest of the world. Evolutionary theory has shown us that there is a “trade off” for resistance to a drug and it has been shown that if resistant and non-resistant
HIV and AIDS are a very serious disease. It can affect anyone no matter what race you are, or what ever religion you believe in. HIV must be stopped but in order for this to happen there must be drug and vaccine trials and there must be people willing to do volunteer for these drug trials. Patients of the HIV tests should be rewarded with health care if they become infected with HIV because as it says in the Nuremberg code patients should not suffer, vaccine companies must protect patients from injury, and doctors shall do no harm to patients. Patients during any vaccine trial should not be harmed in any way no matter how much the information is needed.
Very few people are receiving any treatment for HIV/AIDS. It can be controlled by using a medication known as Antiretroviral therapy (ART) but it cannot be cured. This treatment can make you live as long as a normal
There are many problems that threatens society and one problem in particular, air pollution is a problem that threatens everyone. Air pollution is the contamination of air with pollutants that are harmful to humans, animals, and the environment. It began to be a problem when humans discovered the uses of fire and then the amount of air pollution exponentially grew after the industrial revolution, and is still a problem even today. The largest causes of air pollution are from human activities such as burning of fossil fuels and gas emissions from manufacturing plants. There are ways that ordinary people can help contribute to prevent air pollution and or else face the dangerous consequences of polluted air.
There are many different kinds of drugs and one of them is anti-retroviral therapy. Anti-retroviral therapy consists of three different anti-retroviral drugs and it helps stop HIV in the blood and reduces it to lower levels. This will help reduce the risk of HIV transmission. It is not a cure but it helps control the HIV virus so that you can live longer and it will not spread to other people. By controlling the virus, it means that it will stop the HIV virus from multiplying which means that there will be less HIV in your body.