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Environmental Nutrition (Martin Lecture) Flashcards

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Generally, what trends have we observed in diseases that are increasing?

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Cardiovascular disease

Cancer

HIV/AIDs and TB

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Generally, what trends have we observed in diseases that are decreasing?

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Neonatal conditions

Diarrhea

Lower respiratory infections

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What are some negative impacts on human health suffered from climate change?

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Air pollution/heatwaves –> Cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and respiratory dzs

Floods/disruption of clean water supplies –> Gastroenteritis, cholera & foodborne/waterborne infectious dzs

Disrupted crop production –> malnutrition

Increased temps, extreme weather –> Malaria, dengue fever

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Pollutant:

Ozone

Populations at risk?

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Healthy children

Healthy adults

Atheletes

Outdoor workers

Asthmatics

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Pollutant:

Ozone

Effects on healthy adults/chilrden?

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Decreased lung function

Increased airway reactivity

Lung inflammation

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Pollutant:

Ozone

Effects on Athletes, outdoor workers, asthmatics?

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Decreased exercise capacity

Increased hospitalizations

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Pollutant:

Sulfur Dioxide

Populations at risk?

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Healthy adults

Individuals with chronic lung disease

Asthmatics

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Pollutant:

Sulfur Dioxide

Effect on healthy adults?

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Increased respiratory symptoms

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Pollutant:

Sulfur Dioxide

Effect on Individuals with chronic lung disease?

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Increased mortality

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Pollutant:

Sulfur Dioxide

Effect on Asthmatics?

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Increased hospitalization

Decreased lung function

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Why is particulate matter (soot) so dangerous to inhale?

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*THEY ENTER THE ALVEOLI –> which causes the release of inflammatory mediators

Induces pulmonary inflammation and secondary CV effects

Fine or Ultrafine particles less than 10microm in diameter are the most harmful

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What is the major hallmark for carbon monoxide poisoning?

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Cherry red color of the skin and mucous membranes

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Describe carbon monoxide’s characteristics as a gas

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Nonirritating

Colorless

Tasteless

Odorless

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What are some notable situations where a person is suceptible to chronic CO poisoning?

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Working in tunnels

Underground garages

Highway toll booths

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What are some notable situations where a person is suceptible to acute CO poisoning?

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In small, closed garage w/ running car

Mine fires

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How does CO poisoning ultimatley kill?

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Kills by inducing CNS depression and widespread ischemic changes

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What anatomic structures are affected by CO poisoning?

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Basal ganglia

Lenticular nuclei

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If your patient recovers from CO poisoning, what would you expect to be lasting effects?

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Memory, vision, hearing and speech impairment

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With 60-70% CO saturation, a person can die in as little as…

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5 min

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What is unique about a CO poisoned brain vs a normal brain?

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CO posioned brain has increased detail in anatomical structures

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What are examples of indoor air pollution?

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  • Wood smoke
  • Bioaerosols (pet dander, fungi, molds)
  • Radon
  • Formaldehyde
  • Sick building syndrome
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Lead

What are it’s effects on the human body?

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Hematologic

Skeletal

Neurologic

GI

Renal

TOXICITIES!!!!

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Where is lead frequently found by children?

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Flaking lead paint and soil

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Where are common places for adults to encounter lead during occupational exposure?

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Battery manufacturing

Pigments

Car radiators

Tin cans

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Where does lead primarily deposit in the human body?

How long does it stay there?

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Bone & Developing teeth

20-30 years!

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Low levels of lead in the body lead to in children?

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Subtle deficits in…

  • Intellect
  • Behavioral problems
  • Hyperactivity
  • Poor organizatinoal skills in kids
  • Brain damage
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Low levels of lead causes what symptoms in adults?

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CNS disturbances

Wrist drop

Foot drop

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What is a hallmark finding in the bones to indicate lead poisoning?

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“Lead lines”

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What are the major things you will see on a CBC with a patient with lead posioning?

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Hypochromic microcytic anemia

Basophilic stippling

Ring sideroblasts

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What is “lead colic”?

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Extremely severe and poorly localized abdominal pain caused by lead poisoning

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What is this showing?

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Lead lines

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What is this showing?

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Lead lines

33
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What is this?

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Ringed Sideroblast

Associated with sideroblastic anemia due to excess IRON in mitochondria

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Classification of anemia

What are the lab values for:

MCV

MCH

That would allow a microcytic anemia diagnosis?

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[average RBC size] MCV <80 fL

[hemoglobin amount per RBC] MCH <27 pg

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Histologically speaking…

How big should a RBC be?

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A RBC should be about the same size as the nucleus of a normal lymphocyte

36
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What is this?

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Microcytic/hypochromic anemia

37
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What is this?

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Basophilic stippling

38
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What are three major metals that are enviornmental pollutants?

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Mercury

Arsenic

Cadmium

39
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What disease is related to mercury poisoining?

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Minamata disease:

Cerebral palsy, deafness, blindness, mental retardation and major CNS defects in children exposed in utero

40
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What disease is related to cadmium poisoning?

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“Itai-Itai” (ouch-ouch)

Oseoporosis and osteomalacia w/ renal disease

41
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What are visual indicators that someone has had arsenic poisoning?

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Hyperpigmentation

Hyperkeratosis

“MEES lines” in the nails

42
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What are examples of organic solvents?

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Chloroform

Carbon Tetrachloride

43
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What can prolonged exposure of chloroform and carbon tetrachloride do to the human body?

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CNS depression

Coma

44
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ASSOCIATE: Occupational exposure of rubber workers to …

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Benzene and 1,3-butadiene

45
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What is the effect of benzene/1,3-butadiene on these rubber workers?

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Marrow aplasia

HUGE RISK for acute myeloid leukemia

46
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Asbestosis leads to?

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Mesothelioma ; black lung

47
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What are furrungious bodies?

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Asbestos fibers coated in iron

48
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Vinyl chloride leads to?

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Angiosarcomas in liver

49
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What is bisphenol A?

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BPA

Lines almost all food bottles and cans

*Is a potential endocrine disruptor

50
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What is this?

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Aplastic anemia

51
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Name the disease

A

Mesothelioma

52
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Name the disease

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Black lung

53
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Tobacco accounts for ___% of lung cancers

54
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How do you calculate pack years?

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Pack years = average number of cigarette packs smoked/day (x) # years smoking

55
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Describe the benefits of cessation of smoking for a smoker

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Within 5 years, cessation of smoking improves mortality and decreases risk of death from cardiovascular disease

Lung cancer mortality drops by 21% w/in 5 years

56
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Even if you quit smoking, the excess risk of smoking persists…

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For 30 years

57
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Agents in tobacco smoke have a direct irritant effect on _______________

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Tracheobronchial mucosa

58
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Tobacco smoke influences the tracheobronchial mucosa by…

A

Inducing inflammation

and

Increasing mucus production (bronchitis)

*Remeber, you get that nasty smokers cough b/c the smoke directly effects the ability of your respiratory cilia to “beat” debris out of the respiratory system

59
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Cigarette smokers are at an increased risk of:

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Emphysema

Bronchitis

ALL forms of cancer

COPD

MI

Atherosclerosis

60
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Maternal smoking poses in increased risk of?

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Spontaneous abortions

Preterm births

Intrauterine growth redardation

61
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The risk of lung cancer is determined by?

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The number of cigarettes smoked

62
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Considerations when combining alcohol and smoking?

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Mutiplicative increase in the risk of laryngeal cancer

63
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Most of the alcohol in the blood is oxidized to?

By what enzyme?

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Acetaldehyde

Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH)

64
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What are the ACUTE adverse effects of EtOH?

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  • Steatosis (fatty liver)
  • CNS effects (depressant)
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What are the CHRONIC adverse effects of EtOH?

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Liver: steatosis, alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, portal hypertension, hepatocellular carcinoma

Thiamine: peripheral neuropathies, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

Alcoholic cardioomyopathy= dilated congestive cardiomyopathy

Malnutrition - VITAMIN B!!!

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Smooth philtrum is an indication of what disease process?

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Fetal alcohol syndrome

67
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Discoloration of the skin in this image is caused by?

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Adverse drug reaction to Antibiotic = Minocycline

68
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What is a rare disorder has an increased risk in oral contraceptive use?

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Hepatic adenoma

69
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What are you at an increased risk of aquiring with acetaminophen?

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Liver failure

Centrilobar necrosis

70
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What are you at increased risk of aquiring w/ aspirin?

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Acute salicylate poisoning effects the brain

Analgesic nephropathy

71
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What are the profound risks with opiate intake?

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Respiratory depression

Arrhythmia

Cardiac arrest

Pulmonary edema

72
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What are the major risks associated with cocaine use?

A

Tachycardia

HTN

Peripheral vasoconstriction

73
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Describe the differences b/w burn classifications

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1st degree= superficial, only epidermis

2nd degree = partial thickness

3rd degree = full thickness, extend into the subq tissue

74
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What is the rule of nines used to calculate?

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Percentage of body surface covered in burns

75
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What is a pugilistic stance?

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Body burned beyond recognition

76
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What is malignant hyperthermia?

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“Heat-stroke-like”

Rise in core body temp and muscle contractions

In response to ANESTHETICS (RYR1 gene)

77
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What are “second cancers”?

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OTHER cancers develop in indivuduals who received radiation therapy for an initial cancer

78
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Effects of total-body ionizing radiation

When is the brain effected?

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SUPER HIGH DOSE

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Dr. martin said to be able to diff major dz

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