The nurse include in the teaching on the pathophysiology of the disease the following statement :
"Uncontrolled growth of blood cells causes the marrow to expand to organs".
Explanation:
It is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by increased proliferation of the granulocytic cell line. As a result, the peripheral blood cell profile shows an increased number of granulocytes and their immature precursors, including occasional blast cells thus resulting in expansion of the bone marrow to organs.
Hence the following statement should be given by the nurse :
"Uncontrolled growth of blood cells causes the marrow to expand to organs".
Body composition is a method of describing what the body is made of and denotes the amount of relative fat to muscle you have in your body, measured by body fat percent.
Body composition is examined with regards to lean mass in proportion to body fat .
