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Ageing and nutrition Flashcards

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Ageing

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growing old or developing the characteristics related to old age - increased susceptibility to disease and a decline in physical vigour

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2
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When do you start to age

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Mid 20s

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3
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Components making up nutritional status

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Physical activity 
Basal metabolic rate
Chronic disease
Cognitive impairment 
Physiological changes
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4
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How do you determine BMR

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How much energy you use each day

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5
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What is sarcopenia

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Muscle wasting

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Determinants of nutrition

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Age
Ethnicity 
grief 
Social status 
T2D
Arthritis 
Osteoporosis 
Constipation
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7
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energy balance calculation

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Energy in (nutrition) - energy out (metabolism, physical activity, thermogenesis)

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8
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Daily calorie recommendation for each sex

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2500 men and 2000 women

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What are micronutrients?

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Vitamins and minerals etc

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10
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bones and micronutrients

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  • Vit D produced when cholesterol converted to pre-vitamin D3 by UV light, which gets activated by liver and kidney enzymes into vit D
  • Vit D maintains blood concentration of calcium and phosphorus
  • Prevents osteomalacia and muscle weakness
  • With ageing = less sun = less vit D = weak bones
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11
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Define malnourishment

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BMI <18.5

Unintentional weight loss greater than 10% over 3-6 months

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factors to consider when looking at malnutrition

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Diarrhoea
Depression 
Dementia 
Dentition 
Dysfunction 
Dysphagia
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13
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Full bladder capacity

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500ml

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14
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Which nervous system excretes urine

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PS - s2-4

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15
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Which nerves stop you passing urine?

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Sympathetic (T12-l2)

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16
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Supraspinal neural centre

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pontine micturition centre in brainstem, a relay station for higher brain areas. Neurones are silent when bladder is empty but are activated when mechanoreceptors are stretched. They also relax external urethral sphincter whilst contracting detrusor muscle

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Foetal urination

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  • Amniotic fluid made mostly from urine
  • Urine in amniotic fluid gets more concentrated as pregnancy progresses
  • Major output is baby swallowing the fluid
  • Insufficient urine under-develops lungs (potentially fatal) and also can cause club foot
18
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Lung development

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  • 7-17th week
  • Formation of bronchial tree up to terminal bronchioles
  • Broncho-pulmonary epithelium begins to make amniotic fluid
19
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renal genesis

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Indicated by lack of amnion fluid

not compatible with life

20
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Autonomic bladder reflex in babies

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  • Bladder full
  • Sensory nerves of PS stimulated by stretch receptors
  • Spinal cord S2-4 passes to effector nerves
  • Detrusor contracts and internal sphincter relaxes
21
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Process of micturition

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Bladder full
Sensory nerves of PS stimulated by stretch receptors
Spinal cord s2-4 passes to effector nerves
Detrusor contracts and internal sphincter releases

22
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Potty training

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Voluntary control begins to overrule autonomic

  • Micturition centre in pons receives signals from stretch receptors
  • If it is timely to urinate, pons returns signals to detrusor and internal urethral sphincter to empty. Signals from cerebrum inhibit sacral neurones that keep external sphincter closed - urine passes
  • If it is untimely, signals from cerebrum keep external urethral sphincter contracted - urine remains in bladder
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Function of bulbospongiosus in males

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empty final bits of urine from urethra and bladder

24
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Urinating during ejaculation

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  • S helps you urinate but also allow erection to proceed
  • It is difficult to pass urine whilst having an erection - stops urination of urine into uterus during sex
  • Pressure in corpus spongiosum compresses urethra
  • Consider in priapism
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Ejaculation

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  • Sympathetic not used in micturition but helps ejaculation
  • Relaxes detrusor muscle
  • Contracts internal urethral sphincter
  • Pudendal nerve contracts bulbospongiosus
  • Stops semen from going to bladder
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Dementia control of urination

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These factors impact micturition in people with dementia:

  • Difficulty of cerebrum in interpreting micturition sensory info - they feel bladder is stretched but don’t relate this to going to toilet
  • Loss of visuospatial abilities - can’t find a toilet
  • Apraxia: difficulty of undressing and actually using toilet
  • Locomotion problems - difficulty holding urine until they reach toilet seat
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Muscles in defecation

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  • Internal anal sphincter (autonomic nervous system, S2-4 PS)
  • External anal sphincter (voluntary, S2-4 pudendal nerve)
  • Puborectalis - part of levator ani, pudendal nerve
  • Puborectalis is like a sling and helps you tighten anal muscles - helps stop faeces
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faeces vs flatulence

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  • Pressure receptors are on the three rectal valves hanging inwards
  • Pressure receptors help you differentiate between faeces and flatulence
  • Stretch and pressure = faeces
  • Stretch and no pressure = flatulence
  • No stretch and no pressure = empty rectum
29
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descending pathways

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  • Cortical centres control voluntary control by inhibiting or exciting brainstem
  • Frontal lobe decides about social context - implications in dementia
  • Medial nucleus (pontine micturition centre) controls distal colon and rectum
  • Lateral cell group controls external anal sphincter
  • Spinal cord centre: descending neurones from LCG synapse in Onuf’s nucleus on motor neurones supplying external sphincter
  • 2 pathways - intrinsic reflex connected to medial nucleus and lateral group
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Spinal cord injuries

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  • araplegia or tetraplegia
  • Lose cortical and brainstem control
  • Inability to defecate when convenient
  • Anorectal reflex: distended rectum, sensory and pressure to s1 defecation centre, encouraged peristalsis in sigmoid colon and rectum and relaxes internal anal sphincter
  • Injury above S1 defecation centre: intact colorectal reflex but no voluntary control
  • Injury below: deficient colorectal reflexes and voluntary control
31
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Autism

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impairments of language and behaviour - social emotion, social queues, developing relationships, restricted and repetitive behaviour, sx in early childhood and cause significant impact

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Rett syndrome

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  • Language skill deficits - mute/non-verbal
  • Coordination deficits
  • Repetitive movements
  • Slowed growth
  • Microcephaly
  • Complications = seizures, scoliosis and sleep disorders
  • MECP2 gene mutation
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Autism behavioural sx

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Non-verbal communication impairment
Unaware of others and their emotions
No interest in pretend play with kids

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Language sx autism

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Audio-receptove impairment
Expressive impairment
Repeating
Words regulate environment

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Asperger’s sx

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  • No language impairment - only behavioural
  • less severe behavioural impairment
  • Want to fit in but don’t know how
36
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Definition of learning disability

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Reduced IQ, globally impaired learning and intelligence

37
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Dysgraphia

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Disorder fo writing

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Dyspraxia

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Disorder of motor planning/execution

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