Overview :This book describes how obesity results from an imbalance between the intake of food energy and the expenditure of energy from physical acti... Read More
Overview :Hemophilia is a genetic disease that impairs the normal process of blood clotting and results in uncontrolled external and internal bleeding... Read More
Overview :This book presents Down syndrome, which is the most common chromosomal disorder in humans, occurring at a rate of about 1 in 700 births. It ... Read More
Overview :This book describes Huntington's disease (HD), a rare neurodegenerative genetic disorder that causes a triad of motor, cognitive, and psychi... Read More
Overview :This book is an overview of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), an early childhood condition that affects 1 in 68 children in the United States,... Read More
Overview :This book presents examples of hereditary blindness and deafness that illustrate the large variety of genetic diseases that affect vision an... Read More
Overview :This book presents muscular dystrophy (MD) as a group of genetic diseases with a worldwide occurrence of about 1 in 3,500 births that causes... Read More
Overview :Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common genetic diseases, affecting about 70,000 people throughout the world, with over 1,000 new cas... Read More
Overview :Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common genetic blood disorder in the world. Millions of people in the world have SCD and about 300,000... Read More