What is kidney disease?
In the human body there are two kidneys. Kidney disease is when the kidney is not working well.The kidney’s job is to filter to remove water and wastes from body. When the kidney is not working well,it doesn't filter the water and the waste from the body which makes the waste products can build up in your body. This can lead to many other sickness is well. “Every single hour the blood travels from the heart to the kidney for a cleansing process”. Kidney disease is caused by family history, this is because if kidney disease is in the family genes it is possible that everyone in the family can get it. Kidney diseases can lead to a high blood pressure because the body blood won't able to control the waste in the blood.
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Diabetes affects African-American differently, this is because they develop kidney disease failure more often than the whites. Many of them don’t know that they have diabetes which leads to kidney disease. High blood pressure affects African-Americans differently. ¨African-Americans are almost four times as likely as Whites to develop kidney disease¨. African-Americans are six times more likely to get kidney failure from their high blood pressure than whites. African-Americans have a higher rate of kidney failure than any other group of people.In fact, African-Americans are three to four times more likely to have kidney failure than white Americans. African-Americans are to talk to their doctors about getting tested and how often they should get it because they have a high risk of getting it. African-American to live healthy like exercise to cut their risk of them getting kidney disease.
Consequences
Kidney disease can lead to kidney failure this is because kidney disease slow down the kidneys from working. Which can lead to making the kidneys not working at all, Which is a kidney failure. This can be treated by dialysis which involves the use of a machine that filter waste from your body. This is mostly done by the
This causes body fluids, especially the blood, to become too acidic. Some causes include obstructive sleep apnea, diseases of the chest, airways and the nerves. There is chronic and acute respiratory acidosis. Chronic occurs over a long period of time. This can lead to a stable health state, because your kidneys increase body chemicals and it helps
The next system I dissected was the respiratory system. My first task was to find the trachea as well as the esophagus. My goal was to compare the structure of each. I found the trachea to be wider, stronger, and it had a bumpy surface. The structure of the esophagus is small, but versatile which allows it to move easily.
Case Study 2: What Race Has to Do with Breast Cancer Health disparities among difference race groups continue to be a public health concern. Some races have higher chances of being diagnosed to certain types of serious health conditions as opposed to others. In the United States, African-American women continue to have the highest rates of breast cancer, and at higher risk of being diagnosed at a more advance stage of breast cancer. Although, research has demonstrated that biology and genes can put an individual at a higher risk of cancer, researchers are now identifying outside factors that are affecting many more women. For example, an article released by Time “What Race Has to Do with Breast Cancer” social and culture factors, such as social economic status, can greatly determine the health risk outcome.
Since, the majority of African-Americans live in areas of drug involvement, they are more likely to be racially profiled and investigated. This has created an uneven ethnic ratio in prisons and produced stereotypes that affect children that prevent them from becoming abiding citizens.
Pharmacogenetics is the study of “inherited genetic differences in drug metabolic pathways which can affect individual responses to drugs, both in terms of therapeutic effect as well as adverse effects”. The field of pharmacogenetics led to the understating that drugs have varying effect on different races. Physicians now know many examples of such varying drug response in different races. One of which is difference in hypertension medicine response by whites compared to African
Some of these authorities do not have black people’s best interest in mind. Black people are disproportionately more likely to experience circumstances that increase the chances of having mental illness or challenge. “We know that African Americans have a disproportionate number who are also in poverty and a higher jobless rate. Women are less likely to be coupled or in supportive relationships and so those factors into why African Americans may have higher numbers of psychological disorders,” said Dr. Janet Taylor, a psychiatrist who frequently appears on television shows.
There are a lot of things that influence African Americans lives, but jail incarceration and poverty seems to be at the root. I am mentioning poverty because unjust jail incarceration is linked adjacent to it. According to the State of Working America in a 2013 study, African Americans, poverty rates are the highest at 27%. According to the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, “African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population.”
In recent times, the subject of health disparities has attracted a lot of attention through the media report in both local and national level.in this essay, the health condition of African American will be discussed in this in the following areas as their health status, barriers to health, diverse population and disparities, and health promotion approach to improving this situation. Health Status: According to the 2014 National Health Interview Survey, 13.5% of all African Americans have less than average health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014a). Averagely, the African-American have higher prevalence of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension compared to the national ratio. Further study reveals that 48
The low amount of blood delivered to the kidneys causes inadequate renal perfusion. When this happens, renin is released to secrete aldosterone, a vasoconstrictor that promotes sodium and fluid retention. Aldosterone increases the preload to increase the systolic volume (Moreau, 2006). However, this is counterproductive in the long run because an increase in the preload will wear out the heart by working double time as well as increasing lung congestion. The heart failure causes multiple organ failure in chronic conditions such as altered digestion, decreased brain perfusion
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) “Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people of most ethnicities in the United States, including African Americans, Hispanics, and whites.(2)” Among these ethnicities, African Americans have the highest death rate. Why is it that African Americans are at the top of this list? Perhaps it is because of the social inequality experienced on the socioeconomic scale. Socioeconomic status can heavily influence the optimal health of the heart in an individual; resulting in cardiac injury.
For example, the incident rate of cancer among African Americans is 10% higher than among whites. African Americans and Latinos are also approximately twice as likely to develop diabetes as white people are (Mandal, 2014). Moreover, they also tends have cardiovascular disease, asthma, cancer and HIV/AIDS compared to non-minorities populations. (Thomas, 2014). There are several factors that can lead to healthcare disparities includes poor access to healthcare, poverty, exposure to environmental problems, deficit knowledge, inadequate and unsafe housing as well as individual and behavioral factors.
Dialysis basically acts as an artificial kidney by filtering the blood of the patients on it. Dialysis can be both a good and a bad thing. The good in it is works just like a kidney would for a temporary fix, the bad is that sessions last three hours, several times a week. Dialysis is very harsh on the patient’s bodies, especially the ones that become dependent on it. It basically drains their bodies and causes them to become very weak and most of them aren’t able to work anymore.
The impact that residential segregation and health disparities among African Americans have is minorities become sicker and die more often because they lack medical insurance or have unhealthy lifestyles. Minorities receive unequal treatment from the medical system, regardless of economic status and insurance coverage. These researchers say segregation’s negative impact on health is true particularly for African-Americans, who studies consistently show are most likely to live apart from other racial-ethnic groups. Blacks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have the highest overall death rate in the country. The rate of high blood pressure among African-Americans is highest not just in the nation, but also in the world, the American Heart Association reports, as is the percentage of black men who contract prostate
HIV/Aids is predominant in the African American community; in fact half of the infected population
Every racial/ethnic group has better health disparities than others, but African American are more likely to be affect by health disparities. African