Chapter 20 - Special Populations

Question 1

Diabetes mellitus

Answer 1

A metabolic disorder stemming from abnormal pancreatic insulin production and/or diminished peripheral action of insulin.

Question 2

Type I Diabetes

Answer 2

Results from an autoimmune response whereby the body’s own immune system mistakenly destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.

Question 3

Type II Diabetes

Answer 3

Diabetes mellitus occurring later in life from many factors but mostly boiling down to a sedentary lifestyle.

Question 4

Obesity

Answer 4

A BMI greater than 30

Question 5

Degeneration

Answer 5

The lowering of quality of something.

Question 6

Most common activity for older adults

Answer 6

Walking

Question 7

Flexibility and the relation with age

Answer 7

Flexibility is an essential component of fitness and decreases with age and physical inactivity.

Question 8

Percent of older adults falling every year

Answer 8

35 - 45%

Question 9

CVD

Answer 9

Cardiovascular Disease. more than 1 in 3 Americans have one or more types.

Question 10

CAD

Answer 10

Coronary Artery Disease.