Final Exam: Chronic Diseases

Question 1

What is Cardiovascular disease (CVD)?

Answer 1

Group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels

Question 2

Examples of CVDs

Answer 2

Coronary heart disease (CHD)
Heart attack
Atherosclerosis

Question 3

Is stroke a CVD?

Answer 3

Yes. The formal name is cerebrovascular disease. it’s a disease that affects blood vessels going to the brain

Question 4

What is Coronary heart disease (CHD)?

Answer 4

Disease of blood vessels supplying the heart muscle
Restricted/blocked/narrowed blood vessels (like atherosclerosis
Could result in a heart attack

Question 5

What is cerebrovascular disease?

Answer 5

Stroke
Disease of blood vessels supplying the brain
blockage of blood flow/bleeding from blood vessel
It is a CVD

Question 6

What is atherosclerosis?

Answer 6

Buildup of plaque (fatty material in the inner linings of arteries
Arteries are less flexible and more narrow

Question 7

The journey of atherosclerosis through the life cycle

Answer 7

Starts in childhood, it’s a slow progressive disease, because of poor lifestyle habits or genetics it starts lays down habits but it still looks fine
In late childhood/adolescents, fatty streaks start developing
20s-30s it becomes more fibrous
After that something more serious may happen (ex. heart attack) where the person is diagnosed with CVD

Question 8

CVD is the #__ cause of death globally (__% of all deaths), and the #__ leading cause of death in Canada

Answer 8

1
32
2

Question 9

What are the two most common types of CVD death?

Answer 9

Heart attack and stroke (85% of all CVD deaths)