Question

An 83-year-old resident of a skilled nursing facility presents to the emergency department with generalized edema of extremities and abdomen. History obtained from staff reveals the patient has history of malabsorption syndrome and difficulty eating due to lack of dentures. The patient has been diagnosed with protein malnutrition.

The role genetics plays in the disease.

Why the patient is presenting with the specific symptoms described.

The physiologic response to the stimulus presented in the scenario and why you think this response occurred. T

he cells that are involved in this process.

How another characteristic (e.g., gender, genetics) would change your response. With graduate level reference

Answer 1

The gene TAS2R38 if found responsible for the food habit, it causes the lower intake of some foods and loss their nutritional benefits.

The specific symptom of the edema in the abdomen and the extriimities shows that the patient is have low protien especially in albumin it cause the edema.The main cause of the PEM is caused by the starvation the patient lack of dentures so this may be the cause of the disease.in this condition develops when protien and energy intake chronically fail to meet the body requirment.