· Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Types and their Prevalence in the World and Country
a) Diabetes - Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, Gestational diabetes, Other types
b) Cardiovascular disease - Hypertension, Coronary heart disease, Ischaemic heart disease, Myocardial Infarction, Inflammatory and rheumatic heart diseases, Heart failure
c) Chronic respiratory diseases
d) Cancer and its types
· Obesity as determinant of NCDs
· Clinical manifestations of the Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) – Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular Diseases, Chronic Respiratory Diseases, and Cancer (In general)
Intrauterine programming for NCDs
· Renal Diseases
a) Physiology and function of normal kidney – A brief review
b) Classification of kidney diseases
c) Etiology, characteristics, objectives, principles of dietary management of Glomerulo Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome, Acute Renal Disease, Chronic Renal Disease
d) Dietary modification in chronic renal disease with complications, importance of protein nutrition in renal failure and uremia, Sodium and Potassium Exchange list
e) Types of dialysis and their nutritional care – Haemodialysis, Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)
f) Renal Transplant and its nutritional care
g) Nephrolithiases- etiology, types of stones and nutritional care (acid & alkaline ash diet)
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