Chronic disease

Question 1

What agency recommends that everyone limit their salt intake to about a teaspoon a day, but the question of whether this measure would reduce blood pressure in the average person is controversial?

Answer 1

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Question 2

Which of the following is the leading cause of death among Americans aged 45 to 65?

Answer 2

Cancer

Question 3

Which of the following binds to hemoglobin in the blood, blocking the hemoglobin’s ability to carry oxygen throughout the body?

Answer 3

Carbon Monoxide

Question 4

(True or False) Progress has been hampered in developing drug therapies or vaccines for AIDS because there is no good animal model.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

(True or False) Fatty streaks, the first stage in the development of plaque, have been found on autopsy in half the children ages 10-14 who died of accidental causes

Answer 5

True

Question 6

(True or False) It is a federal mandate that all industrial chemicals must be tested for carcinogenicity.

Answer 6

false

Question 7

(True or False) From 1965 to today, the incidence of diabetes among American adults has increased more than sevenfold.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

(True or False) Diabetes triples the risk of death at any age.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

(True or False) All forms of diabetes involve some kind of problem with the hormone insulin, whether in production or sensitivity.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

(True of False) Type 2 diabetes is usually caused by obesity.

Answer 10

true

Question 11

(True or False) Significant resources are being devoted to studying causes of dementia, but much work remains to be done.

Answer 11

true

Question 12

The ________________________ has referred to twin epidemics of diabetes and obesity because obesity greatly increases the risk of diabetes and the number of Americans who are obese has been increasing rapidly.

Answer 12

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Question 13

__________________, while not a major killer, can severely impact the quality of life for many older people, causing great pain and suffering in their last years

Answer 13

Arthritis

Question 14

A major cause of disability in the United States and yet very little is known about its causes and prevention

Answer 14

Mental illness

Question 15

Cause anguish to their families and force affected people into nursing homes at a tremendous cost to society

Answer 15

Alzheimer`s disease

Question 16

Number of Americans diagnosed has more than tripled in the past 20 years
Diabetes

Answer 16

Diabetes

Question 17

Has proven much more difficult to understand that cardiovascular disease because it has so many different manifestations

Answer 17

cancer

Question 18

Increases the risk of kidney disease

Answer 18

hypertension

Question 19

Especially significant as a cause of heart attack in younger adults
Tobacco

Answer 19

Tobacco

Question 20

Have long been known to cause some cancers in plants and animals but only recently in human

Answer 20

viruses