ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA

By: Nathan Stewart

WHAT IS ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA

Adrenal Hyperplasia is a disorder that limits the adrenal glands from making
certain hormones dealing with genetic conditions.
Mainly it is that Adrenal Hyperplasia causes the glands to not produce
enough cortisol.
This can possibly affect other kinds of hormones as well.

CAUSES
The cause of Adrenal Hyperplasia is that it is an inherited genetic defect that
limits the amount of cortisol produced.
Adrenal Hyperplasia is not an autosomal dominant gene and is an autosomal
recessive gene.
This is a sex-linked gene and causes early puberty in boys and genital
development in girls which is basically the development of the reproductive
system, and both boys and girls may get acne.
Adrenal Hyperplasia is not non disjunction.

CAUSES CONTINUED
Adrenal Hyperplasia is a inherited genetic defect that has lots of side effects
and is gotten from birth and causes problems in childhood and your
adulthood.
Healthy genes have common phenotypes and genotypes and have no
mutations but afflicted genes have mutations which causes the alleles to be
rare ones but most of the time the mutation cant be seen.
The chromosome that is affected is chromosome 6, that is changed by
mutations.

FACTS ABOUT ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA

Adrenal Hyperplasia is a birth defect that occurs in 1 of 10,000-18,000
children.
This disorder occurs in both male and female and is not more frequent in
either gender.
This disorder is more common in ethnic groups like Ashkenazi Jews.
This disorder affects birth of babies, childhood, and some of them their
adulthood.

SYMPTOMS
Poor weight gain
Weight loss
Dehydration
Vomiting
Very early puberty
Rapid growth during childhood

TESTING/SCREENING
Blood tests
Urine tests
Physical exams
Amniocentesis
Chorionic villus sampling
Newborn screening

TREATMENT
Medications and surgery are the best and 2 treatments for Adrenal
Hyperplasia.
This disease is life threatening put if you have proper treatment you can live
a normal life.

OTHER FACTS ABOUT ADRENAL

HYPERPLASIA
There are two types of Adrenal Hyperplasia (Classic Adrenal Hyperplasia
which is more common and Non classic Adrenal Hyperplasia which is the
more rare version).
You can only get Adrenal Hyperplasia if you inherit a defective enzyme trait
from each parent.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/congenital-adrenal-hyperplasia/basic
s/definition/con-20030910
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/primary-macronodular-adrenal-hyperplasia