Cardiovascular Disease

Question 1

Hypertension, Heart Failure, Stroke, CAD, Atheriosclerosis

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Preventable forms of cardiovascular disease

Question 2

The progressive narrowing of the coronary arteries causing a decreased blood supply to the myocardium
Coronary arteries: arties that feed the heart with blood
Myocardium: Heart muscle

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Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

Question 3

: the progressive narrowing of the arteries

Becomes CAD when the arteries that are being narrowed are responsible for nourishing the heart

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atheroosclerosis

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decreases the blood supply to the heart to the extent of not being able to meet the oxygen demands of the muscle
causes chest pain

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ischemia

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is ischemia is not corrected the deprived cells begin to die causing a

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heart attack

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Smoking and other tobacco use, Hypertension, Abnormal blood lipids or high cholesterol, Physical inactivity, Obesity and overweight, Diabetes

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Risk Factors

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Concentrated energy source of fats that are stored in the body (in the blood or in adipose tissue)

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triglycerides

Question 8

Proteins that carry the lipids in the blood•Should e less than 200

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Lipoproteins(Cholesterol)

Question 9

should be greater than 60

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HDL (High Density Lipoproteins)

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Should be less than 130

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LDL (Low density lipoproteins)

Question 11

a dominant risk factor for CAD

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VLDL (Very low density lipoprotein)

Question 12

medical term for high blood pressure

normal 120/80

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hypertension

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greater than 140 and/or greater than 90 diastolic pressure

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hypertension numbers

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Heredity–Increasing age–Sodium sensitivity–Excessive alcohol consumption–Tobacco use–Obesity and overweight–Diabetes–Physical inactivity–Oral contraceptives–pregnancy–stress

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Risk factors for hypertension

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Caused by blood clot and atherosclerotic damage or fatty deposits that break away into the blood and atherosclerotic damageIn any of these cases, blood supply to the brain is disrupted causing cellular death

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stroke

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A clinical condition in which the heart muscle becomes too weak to maintain an adequate cardiac output to meet the body’s oxygen demands

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heart failure

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Involves systemic arteries and veins instead of the coronary arteries

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peripheral vascular disease

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Walls of the arteries become thickened, hard and less elastic–This is a form of atherosclerosis

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arteriosclerosis

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Includes heart defects that are present at birth

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cognitive heart disease

Question 20

Body weight that exceeds the normal or standard weight for a particular person based on height and frame size

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overweiight

Question 21

Condition of having an excessive amount of body fat
Men with greater than 25% body fat and women with greater than 35% body fat are considered to be obese
Men with 20-25% body fat and women with 30-35% body fat are considered to be borderline obese

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obesity