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What are the long term effects of progeria?
Progeria is a rare genetic disorder that causes rapid aging and premature death in children. The long-term effects include progressive physical changes such as stunted growth, cardiovascular problems, bone abnormalities, hair loss, and limited range of motion. Unfortunately, most individuals with progeria have a significantly reduced life expectancy and often succumb to complications related to heart disease.
What is the name of the disease that causes rapid aging?
Progeria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria
What is the deadliest disease in America?
Heart disease is the deadliest disease in America, being the leading cause of death for both men and women. It is responsible for a significant number of fatalities each year due to factors such as obesity, high blood pressure, and unhealthy lifestyle habits.
What is one disease of the endocrine system?
An example of a disease that affects the endocrine system could be hypothyroidism or diabetes.
Why health do not consists an absence of disease or infirmity?
World Health Organization's definition of Health is a state of complete mental, physical and social well-being and not merely the absence of a disease. "Not merely the absence of a disease" meant that a person who does not have any symptom of disease or is not diagnosed with a disease, is healthy. For a person to be stated as healthy, he must be of sound mental (no apparent signs or symptoms of deviation), physical (no objective and subjective signs and symptoms of disease or illness) and social well-being (can interact, can communicate normally).
Is a polio vaccine the only way to prevent polio?
Yes. I suggest you get the vaccination. Polio is EXTREMELY rare now in the world. It is slowly developing to be the second fully eradicated disease in the world right after Smallpox.
Is polio a disease or a virus?
polio is a disease caused by the poliovirus
Is polio a microbial disease?
polio is a microbal disease itr is caused by viruses
How big is polio?
Polio has no size, It's a disease.
What are the chances of getting a child with polio if husbands father is polio affected?
Polio is not an inherited disease; it is an infectious disease caused by a virus.
Is polio a hereditary disease and if not why?
Polio is NOT hereditary. It is caused by a virus, poliovirus, that is highly contagious. A vaccine exists to prevent catching the disease.
What was the impact of Jonas Salk?
Jonas Salk developed the Polio Vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh. Without the Polio vaccine, people today would still be suffering from the disease today.
Is polio chronic?
The disease of polio is generally not chronic in nature. The effects of the disease, however, can have lifelong and major health consequences.
What is a preventable disease?
polio
Is Polio a disease?
yes
What disease has all but been eradicated from the planet since the end of World War 2?
Polio is one disease without much occurance today.
What paralyzing disease did President Roosevelt have?
Franklin D. Roosevelt had polio.
