I strongly encourage you to select a disease or disorder that is interesting to you. You should submit at least three topics that might interest you to the Topic Rationale Approval item in your Assignment folder. I strongly encourage you to select a disease or disorder that is interesting to you. You should submit at least three topics that might interest you to the Topic Rationale Approval item in your Assignment folder.
Alzheimer’s Disease
ADD/ADHD
Depression
Please provide me a short rationale about your interest in the topic for your first choice. In cases of duplications, I will take your rationale into consideration. This section should be approximately 600 words (not less than 500 words; not more than 750 words) excluding references. This part of the assignment is in preparation for Part II. Please provide me a short rationale about your interest in the topic for your first choice. In cases of duplications, I will take your rationale into consideration. This section should be approximately 600 words (not less than 500 words; not more than 750 words) excluding references. This part of the assignment is in preparation for Part II.
Select a disease, find resources, and describe risk factors and symptoms.
Suggestions could include one of the following diseases:
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?
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. Cite your sources in APA format. See https://libguides.umgc.edu/apa-examples.
Your paper should be written in your own words (less than 20% quoted material).
Select a disease, find resources, and describe risk factors and symptoms.
Suggestions could include one of the following diseases:
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?
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. Cite your sources in APA format. See https://libguides.umgc.edu/apa-examples.
Your paper should be written in your own words (less than 20% quoted material).
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