Identify each factor as an internal or external pressure.
addictive tendencies
Internal
External
the need to feel pleasure
celebrity role models
perception of drug use as a norm
genetic factors

Choose thyroid, parathyroid, or the adrenal gland and choose one disease affecting this part of the en-docrine system.

What can you do to be a financially responsible consumer.

An 80-year-old woman comes to the urgent care clinic with dyspnoea on exertion. on physical examination, her blood pressure is 100/70, and her pulse is 75. she has no pulsus paradoxus. her jugular veins are distended, and she has distant heart sounds. in addition, she has extra third and fourth heart sounds. her liver is enlarged, and she has pedal oedema. she has occasional premature ventricular contractions on her electrocardiogram. a chest x-ray reveals clear lung fields with a dilated cardiac silhouette. her echocardiogram reveals ventricular walls with a "speckled pattern". which of the following is the most likely diagnosis? - alcoholic cardiomyopathy- amyloidosis- haemochromatosis- tuberculosis- viral myocarditis