Answer the following questions:
a) What is the nature of the disease (origin or cause)? Are there multiple stages of the disease?
b) What are the signs and symptoms? What physiological changes occur?
c) What are the risk factors for this disease? Are these modifiable (for example, you could stop smoking, or eat less saturated fat) or nonmodifiable (age, sex, genetic inheritance).
d) How do the risk factors affect the progression of the disease?
e) How frequent is this disease in the general US population?
1. Select a disease, find resources, and describe risk factors and symptoms.
Find resources (at least three) from journal articles, websites or book chapters for your choice of disease. Please review the UMGC resource Is My Source Credible https://sites.umgc.edu/library/libhow/credibility.cfm. Sources need to be credible in order to receive points. See https://libguides.umgc.edu/apa-examples.
2. In your written paper, use headings to orient your audience. For example, the sections of your paper should be divided into section with headings that include a title; an introduction that describes the nature of the disease (origin or cause), its stages, signs and symptoms; physiological changes that occur; risk factors (modifiable and unmodifiable); how risk factors affect progression of the disease, frequency of the disease in the population, and your References. You may include additional section headings as necessary to cover your particular topic.
