They go a bit more lost/confused as the night comes
Alzheimer's is a disease that affects mostly middle age people to seniors. It is a deterioration of mental capabilities and memory.
The first person to have a specific disease e.g. For aids the patient zero was a Canadian/French plane steward.
A positive ANA test does not necessarily mean the patient has an autoimmune disease. An ANA test is not specific for autoimmunity, but is a sign of inflammation that is often specific to autoimmunity. Specific antibodies are usually tested for to determine if a patient has an autoimmune disease.
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Science has identified some genes that appear to be related to the inheritance of lupus and autoimmunity. Having these genes only predisposes the patient to the disease however, it does not mean the patient will ever get lupus.
Remission is the time when the disease is not active. Symptoms are not usually apparent or causing problems and the Crohns disease patient feels well.
The phrase "patient education" refers to a doctor informing a patient about their sickness, disease, medications, and more. It is a way of fostering health and preventing return visits to the doctor.
When speaking of diseases, a communicable disease is one that can be passed from one with the disease to one who doesn't. This is the way colds are passed. A noncommunicable diseasecan not be passed person to person. For example, heart disease. You can not get heart disease from a patient who has it.
It appears that he had some of 'brain incident' in 2004 or 2005, which was later thought to be a minor stroke. Since he posted in December 2007 that he had been 'newly diagnosed with the early onset of Alzheimers disease, this would probably mean about November 2007, or possibly a bit earlier.
It may mean that the patient has a vitamin K deficiency, a liver disease, or disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
Terminal illnesses generally mean that disease is not curable and the patient has 6 months or less to live. No terminal illnesses are curable. The best case scenario is that the disease is slowed and the patient has lives more than 6 months.
A systemic disease effects more than one part of the body. A severe systemic disease is spread throughout the body and impacts the patient's life to a large degree, causing widespread pain and suffering.