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Question

Why must hormones like insulin and oxytocin be injected?

Explain some of the dangers associated with overuse of anabolic steriods?

Why does excess secretion of growth hormone in childhood produce gigantism and in adulthood acromegaly?

Why are goiters much less common today than 100 years ago?

Explain the difference between the effects of hypothyroidism in adults and in children?

Explain the effects of hypoparathyroidism.

Differentiate between diabetes mellitus 1 and 2?

Answer 1

1. They are made of amino acids and your digestive system would break them down.
2. As a child the epiphyseal plates have not fused, so there can be more linear bone growth. As an adult, since the fusion has occurred, growth can only occur in cartilage and the acral bones.
3. There is iodine fortified in the foods we eat, especially those containing salt. And we all eat plenty of salt.
4. Hypothyroidism causes mental retardation in children since it is needed for myelination. In adults it is mostly responsible for a drop in the metabolic rate, which causes obesity, cold intolerance, high cholesterol, etc.
5. It causes your calcium to be low which can cause your heart to stop beating.
6. Type 1 is due to autoimmune destruction of the beta cells. It usually starts in childhood. Type 2 is due to decreased responsiveness of adipose tissue to insulin. It usually starts in adulthood, especially those who are obese.

Answer 2

Diverticulitis is a common digestive disease particularly found in the colon (the large intestine). Diverticulitis develops from diverticulosis, which involves the formation of pouches (diverticula) on the outside of the colon. Diverticulitis results if one of these diverticula becomes inflamed or infected.