Cronic Diseases And Disabilities Flashcards
What are Chronic diseases
disease that persist for a long period or reoccur throughout life
What are chronic diseases caused by
Risk factors that are behavioral, environmental, or hereditary
What are cardiovascular systems
Diseases of the heart (cardio) and blood vessels (vascular)
What are the six cardiovascular diseases
Hypertension, atherosclerosis, heart attack, Arrhythmia, congestive hard failure, stroke
When does hypertension occur
When a person has a blood pressure consistently measuring 140/90 or higher
Since many people experience no obvious symptoms of hypertension what is it known as
The silent killer
How many American adults have hypertension
1 out of 3
Four ways you can reduce risk of developing hypertension
Exercise regularly, maintain a healthy weight, reduce stress, Eat foods low in sodium
What is atherosclerosis
I disease in which fatty substance build up inside artery walls
What does atherosclerosis increase your risk of developing
Arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease
What is arteriosclerosis
Hardening of the arteries = lose elasticity and become stiff
What is coronary heart disease
Coronary arteries narrow =decrease blood flow to heart
What is a heart attack
Occurs when some of the tissues in the heart doesn’t receive its normal blood supply
What causes a heart attack
A blood clot that forms in a coronary artery that has been narrowed by atherosclerosis
In a year, how many people suffer from a heart attack in the US and how many people die from it?
Over 1 million suffer from a heart attack but 500,000 of those million die
What are four major risk factors for heart attacks
having a low blood pressure, Iow levels of cholesterol, physical inactivity, smoking
What is arrhythmia (irregular heart beats)
Another form of heart disease
A life-threatening arrhythmia in which the hearts which is rapidly and Uncoordinated fashion
fibrillation
What is it called when the heart slowly weakens overtime
Congestive heart failure
what are three effects of stroke and what do they do
Brain damage – (senses, speech, comprehension, behavior, thought patterns, and memory)
Paralyzed– on one side of the body or severely disabled
Death – 1/3 strokes
What are four risk factors you cannot control
Heredity, ethnicity, gender, age
What are six risk factors you can control
Maintain a healthy weight, eat a healthy diet, physically active, manage stress, monitor your blood pressure, avoid smoking and drinking
A group of diseases that involves the rapid, uncontrolled growth and spread of animal cells it harms the body by destroying healthy BLANK
Cancer, it harms body tissue
Cancer cells typically form a massed tissue called?
A tumor (malignant= cancerous; benign= not cancerous
What are two causes of cancer
Heredity, environment
Human genes control cell reproduction
Heredity
A gene that changed into a cancer-causing gene is called an?
Oncogene
What contains cancer-causing agents known as BLANK
Environment, known as carcinogens
