Diabetes: Types, Nutritional Therapy, and Recommendations

Posted by on Mar 8, 2025 in Medicine & Health | 0 comments

Gestational Diabetes and Secondary Forms

Gestational diabetes appears during pregnancy (2nd or 3rd trimester), affecting approximately 2% of pregnancies. There is often a genetic predisposition. In the 2nd or 3rd trimester, an increase in insulin antagonist hormones and insulin resistance is normal. This impacts both the mother and fetus, potentially leading to perinatal complications. After delivery, a percentage of women may develop Type 2 diabetes.

Secondary Diabetes

Secondary diabetes can arise

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English Phrases and Vocabulary: Improve Your Fluency

Posted by on Mar 7, 2025 in Medicine & Health | 0 comments

English Phrases and Vocabulary

Keep track of: To continue to be informed or know about someone or something.

Instigate: To provoke.
Cheery: In good spirits.
A hollow attempt: An unsuccessful try.
Merely: Simply, only.
Assess: To evaluate.
Workforce: The people available for work in a particular area, firm, or industry.
Put sth on hold: To postpone sth.
Be entitled to: To have the right to.
Fall back on sth: Do sth else after things have failed.
Corporation: A business that is owned by many investors.
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Urban Living and Health: Challenges and Solutions

Posted by on Mar 6, 2025 in Medicine & Health | 0 comments

Urban Living Vocabulary

Property, luxury, street vendor, overpriced, packed, neighborhood, high-rise, built-up (urbanized), outskirts, congestion (traffic jam), hectic, abandoned, gained, tempted, housing, clashed with, slums (suburbios), firm (agency), worth (value), have a say, along with, litter (trash), risk of, reason for, reaction to, room for, ban on, knowledge of, increase in, agreement on, solution to, need for, lack of, break from, effect on, put a stop to, put wild, put an emphasis on

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Residential and Day Care Centers: Services and Support

Posted by on Mar 6, 2025 in Medicine & Health | 0 comments

Residential Centers

  • Residences and the Services They Provide:

Residences are centers that act as household substitutes for people who, due to social, family problems, or disability, cannot be assisted within their family or live independently.

Four Types of Services:

  • Basic Services: Accommodation, food, adapted transport, assistance with activities of daily living, etc.
  • Therapeutic Services: Psychological and social health care, occupational therapy, health care, functional rehabilitation, cognitive
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Lung Cancer: Treatment and Prognosis by Stage

Posted by on Mar 5, 2025 in Medicine & Health | 0 comments

Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Hidden In Situ (Tx/Tis)

  • Curability: 75%
  • Surgery
  • Radiation Therapy: External/Brachytherapy
  • Photodynamic Therapy

Stage I (T1-2 N0 M0)

  • Five-Year Survival: 50%
  • Surgery:
    • Lobectomy
    • Segmentectomy
    • Marginal Resection
    • Pneumonectomy
  • Five-Year Survival: Global (72%), T1 (83%), T2 (65%)
  • Radiotherapy
  • Photodynamic Therapy

Stage II (T1-2 N1/T3 N0/M0)

  • Five-Year Survival: 30%
  • Surgery:
    • Lobectomy
    • Lobectomy with Bronchoplasty
    • Pneumonectomy
  • Five-Year Survival: Global (49%), T1 (56%), T2 (48%)
  • Radiotherapy

Stage

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Medication and Drug Treatments: Uses and Types

Posted by on Mar 4, 2025 in Medicine & Health | 0 comments

Drug Treatments: Drugs and Medicines

Drugs are products used to cure, alleviate, prevent, or diagnose diseases. They contain one or more active ingredients, which are substances that give medicines their properties.

All medicines may lead to adverse reactions, which are negative and unwanted effects. Health authorities must verify that a drug’s benefits outweigh the possible adverse reactions before it can be marketed.

Each medication should be taken in the proper dosage. Exceeding the recommended

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