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disordered metabolism

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disordered metabolism,
changes in metabolism that result from disease and medications administered to control diseases. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients, for example, may experience severe malnutrition, wasting, weight loss, hypermetabolism, and altered energy metabolism. Human immunodeficiency virus causes blunting of intestinal villi and secretion of abnormal intestinal enzymes, resulting in severe diarrhea and malabsorption.


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Diabetes is a syndrome characterized by disordered metabolism and inappropriately high blood sugar resulting from either low levels of the hormone insulin or from abnormal resistance to insulin''s effects coupled with inadequate levels of insulin secretion to compensate.
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis, affecting anywhere from 30 to 50 million Americans It is a disease that is due to disordered metabolism in cartilage, the gristle that caps the ends of long bones within a joint Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis, affecting anywhere from 30 to 50 million Americans.
Diabetes is a syndrome of disordered metabolism resulting in abnormally high sugar level (hyperglycemia).
 
 
 
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