This week you will be completing the first of two writing assignments focused on the same chronic disease. Choose a chronic disease and write a brief literature review that gives the reader an overview of the disease.

Please address the following:

history of the disease (evolution of discovery)

etymology (language roots for the terminology)

epidemiology (who is at risk and/or how prevalent is the condition)

signs and symptoms (what do patients experience)

causes (predisposing factors or antecedents)

pathophysiology (what is happening in/to the body physically or phsyiologically)

diagnosis (how is the condition verified)

treatment/management (how is it treated)