Disorders of Health in IT Professionals Why health disorders in the IT professionals…? · Stress is high in software profession because of their nature of work, target, achievements, night shift, over work load. · Indian IT professionals are slowly but steadily getting into modern occupational disorders. · Stress at work has been linked with coronary heart disease and metabolic syndrome in retrospective and prospective studies. · The patho physiological mechanisms involve direct neuroendocrine effects and indirect effects mediated by adverse health behaviors. · The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors that increases the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. · Characteristics of...
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Fever: pathogenesis, patho physiology, and purpose. · Fever appears to have evolved in vertebrate hosts as an adaptive mechanism for controlling infection. · This phenomenon is produced by certain exogenous (largely microbial) stimuli that activated bone-marrow-derived phagocytes to release a fever-inducing hormone (endogenous pyrogen). · Endogenous pyrogen, in turn, circulates to the thermoregulatory center of the brain (preoptic area of the anterior hypothalamus) where it causes an elevation in the "set-point" for normal body temperature. · Warm blooded animals produced fever by increasing heat production (through shivering) or reducing heat loss (by peripheral vasoconstriction), whereas cold blooded animals do so only by behavioral mechanisms (seeking a warmer environment). ...