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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Loss of appetite"”.
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Evaluating the outcomes of cancer patients receiving palliative care in Botswana
… Africa that is experiencing a growing incidence of cancer and other Non-Communicable Diseases and is at the early stages of implementing Palliative Care (PC). PC has been shown to enhance the quality of life (QoL) of patients and their families, consequently improving their health outcomes. This …
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Longitudinal changes in clinical symptoms and signs in children with confirmed, unconfirmed, and unlikely pulmonary tuberculosis
Background: The paucibacillary nature of paediatric pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) makes microbiological diagnosis difficult and limits the usefulness of microbiology for assessing treatment efficacy. Clinical response to treatment has thus been used by clinicians to monitor disease activity, as well …
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Recommendations for Administering a Smoking Cessation Program at a State University.
… Association (AMA), smoking is the greatest cause of preventable illness and death in the United States. In 1997, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that 29% of college students reported current cigarette use.</p> <p>The purpose of this study is to assess students' …
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An exploration of menstruation hygiene management among high school learners: the case of Fezeka High School, Gugulethu
Menstruation is an issue of great importance. Today, despite menstruation being a natural process, it affects the education of girls. A qualitative study was conducted in Gugulethu, where face to face interviews were conducted with nineteen girls from Fezeka High school. The purpose of the study …
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Ghrelin: The Hunger Hormone that Isn't
… 1999 and shortly thereafter shown to stimulate appetite when injected into rodents and humans. While ghrelin knockout mice have failed to show a decrease in appetite or bodyweight, the literature -- as well as the lay press -- continues to presume ghrelin levels are a mediator of appetite in …
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Identification of the most prevalent symptoms and sites of pain experienced by AIDS patients at Soweto Hospice, Johannesburg, South Africa
The aim of this study was to identify the ten most prevalent symptoms and five of the most common sites of pain in a patient with advanced AIDS. The setting was a Hospice In-Patient and Home Care program in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Soweto has a population of approximately 3.5 million. …
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Identification and Delineation of Neuronal Pathways Underlying Hypophagia
<p>In terms of metabolism, eating disorders manifest in two extreme directions: overnutrition, which can lead to obesity, and malnutrition, which can result in underweight or even starvation. Both extremes compromise the quality of life. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental …
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A Cytological Study of the Sporozoites of Eimeria Caviae, a Coccidian Parasite of the Domestic Guinea Pig, Cavia Porcellus
… morphological and cytological characteristics of the sporozoites of Eimeria caviae, Sheather (1924), a coccidian parasite of guinea pigs. Observations concerning the prepatent and patent periods, the symptomatology and pathology, and the morphological features of the oocysts of this species are …
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Impact of interior design on the dining abilities of the elderly residents in assisted living and nursing homes
The purposes of this two-phase study were to identify and describe the problems in assisted living and nursing home dining areas, identify solutions, and offer design recommendations or guidelines that would be useful to those involved in creating the dining environment for the elderly. The study …
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Assessing the palliative care needs of elderly patients seen at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
… with a population growth rate (2000-2005) of 2.5% and with 5% of the total population aged 60 years and above, has the potential for a rapid growth rate of the older population in coming years.1 The implication of this in a country with large population as reported by the National …
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Quality of life and coping in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease
… Disease (IBD) is a chronic disease with pehods of remission and relapse, as inflammation occurs in the gastrointestinal tract causing symptoms such as diarrhoea, fatigue, abdominal cramps and loss of appetite. This work aimed to validate an instrument to measure quality of life (aoL) in children …
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A prospective, longitudinal, observational study to assess the health-related quality of life of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in the South African context
… 2020 ranks PDAC as the 7 th leading cause of all cancer deaths. There are no reliable statistics on the incidence of PDAC in South Africa. The National Cancer Registry South Africa of 2017 reports that PDAC accounts for 0.53% and 0.58% of all cancers in females and males respectively. …
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Alimentar no final da vida : transição do familiar cuidador para a recusa alimentar
… desses factores, pelo familiar cuidador, sofre uma evolução no decorrer da doença pelo que se manifesta na resposta vivencial.
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Synthesis and potential application of Fe3+/Mn2+ bimetal and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (HDTMA-Br) modified clayey soils for arsenic removal in groundwater
The presence of arsenic in groundwater has drawn worldwide attention from researchers and public health officials due to its effects on human health such as, cancer, skin thickening, neurological disorders, muscular weakness, loss of appetite and nausea. World Health Organisation (WHO) has set the …