Approach to Obesity by Dr. Ewida and Dr. Omnia

The NHLBI panel recommends that Treatment of the overweight and obese patient is a two-step process:

Assessment

Requires determination of the degree of obesity and the absolute risk status.

Management

Reduction of excess weight

Maintenance of this lower body weight

Institiution of additional measures to control any associated risk factors. 

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Anemia powerpoint presentation By Dr. Rafea Muftah

More than one-quarter of the world’s population is anemic. Approximately one-half of this burden is a result of iron deficiency anemia, The diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of iron The development of iron deficiency, and the rapidity with which it progresses, is dependent upon the individual's initial iron stores, which are, in turn, dependent upon age, sex, rate of growth, and the balance between iron absorption and loss.

menstrual losses (approximately 1 mg of iron loss per day), losses associated with pregnancy and lactation (approximately 1000 mg each for pregnancy, delivery, and nursing).

-major cause of anemia is the blood loss from the history.  Examples include severe traumatic hemorrhage, hematemesis, melena, hemoptysis, severe menorrhagia, and gross hematuria.

-Malabsorption: GI malabsopriton is uncommon but can be as aresult of genelralized malapsorption and and achlorhydia.  but it can be appear with (atrophic gastritis, h pylori gastritis, celiac disease and especially in the unexplained anemia who are in iron tablet.

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