Cardiovascular Risk

Question 1

What are modifiable CV risk factors?

Answer 1

Obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, smoking, alcohol, exercise, type II diabetes

Question 2

What are non-modifiable CV risk factors?

Answer 2

Personal history or family history of CV disease, age, gender, deprivation

Question 3

What is a good test for calculating CV risk?

Answer 3

Assign score

Question 4

What is classified as high risk?

Answer 4

> 20% chance of an event in the next 10 years

Question 5

What are the three factors of the epidemiological triangle for reducing CV risk?

Answer 5

Agent/vector, environmental, host

Question 6

What is primary prevention?

Answer 6

Stopping a disease before it starts

Question 7

What is secondary prevention?

Answer 7

Stopping a disease from being as bad as it could be

Question 8

What is tertiary prevention?

Answer 8

Stopping later complications from developing

Question 9

What is a measure to identify disease early and what is a CV example of this?

Answer 9

Screening- AAA

Question 10

What and when is the test for AAA?

Answer 10

Abdominal ultrasound on all men aged 65