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Dr Nicola Davies

@healthpsychuk

PhD in health psychology, senior medical writer, and counsellor. I run my own business and am always eager for writing and research assignments.

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Amyloidosis represents a group of disorders characterized by deposition of insoluble protein fibrils (amyloid) into the patient’s organs, leading to dysfunction

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Although technically classified as a rare disease, amyloidosis has three distinct subtypes – AL (primary), AA (secondary), and ATTR

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The most common subtype of amyloidosis, the AL type, has an estimated prevalence rate of 40.5 cases per million person years, and the incidence has been steadily increasing at the rate of 12% per year

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20% of AL amyloidosis patients experience a delay in diagnosis by as much as 2 years, while the wait is around 42% in patients suffering from the cardiac ATTRwt subtype of amyloidosis

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Catching up on #HealthData debates during #COVID19? Read our 4 thematic blogs by Nigel Hughes EHDEN ➡️bit.ly/3kCQnWO Prof Lawler European Cancer Organisation ➡️bit.ly/2Pt0mTi Dr Nicola Davies ➡️bit.ly/3bY2ZUu & Ania Henley National Institute for Health and Care Research ➡️bit.ly/305XVs0

Catching up on #HealthData debates during #COVID19? Read our 4 thematic blogs by
Nigel Hughes <a href="/IMI_EHDEN/">EHDEN</a> ➡️bit.ly/3kCQnWO
Prof Lawler <a href="/EuropeanCancer/">European Cancer Organisation</a> ➡️bit.ly/2Pt0mTi
<a href="/healthpsychuk/">Dr Nicola Davies</a> ➡️bit.ly/3bY2ZUu
&amp; Ania Henley <a href="/NIHRresearch/">National Institute for Health and Care Research</a> ➡️bit.ly/305XVs0
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10-15% of individuals experience ‘complicated grief’ a condition in which grief persists with intensity over a prolonged period.

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Emotional distancing, while often necessary within nursing, has led to the phenomenon of cumulative grief – where nurses who experience multiple deaths without any grief resolution eventually suffer a breakdown after reaching a crisis point

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Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is an irreversible movement disorder characterised by choreiform or athetoid movements of the face, trunk, mouth or extremities.

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There are 13 different subtypes of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), each originating from a specific genetic change and each with its own symptoms and criteria for diagnosis

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•Growth factor injection prolotherapy: this involves the injection of a growth factor to promote the buildup of specific cells (such as fibroblasts) at the injection site.

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•Growth factor stimulation prolotherapy: this involves injecting low-concentration doses of dextrose into the tissue, inducing cells, to produce growth factors that help with the growth and migration of certain cell types.

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•Inflammatory prolotherapy: this involves injecting higher concentrations of dextrose alongside phenolic compounds such as procaine, lidocaine or sodium morrhuate into the joints.

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