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WHO Definition of Health

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  • A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity
  • This means every aspect of the body and spirit (a pretty lofty definition)
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What are the determinants of health?

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An Interaction Between:
1. Individual Biology and Behavior
2. Physical and Social Environment
3. Government Policies and Interventions
4. Access to quality health care

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Health is what the individual ____

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perceives it to be

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Disease

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  • Any deviation from or interruption of the normal structure or function of a part, organ, or system of the body that is manifested by a characteristic set of symptoms or signs
  • In regard to structure or in function; and whole body or part of the body
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Organic Disease

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When there is a structural change in the body
ex: Brain lesion, Tumor

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Functional Disease

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No morphological abnormalities, but characteristic signs/symptoms
ex: IBS

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Asymptomatic

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-Disease present (abnormal physical findings) but NOT associated with symptoms or discomfort
-Unaware they have it
ex: Hypertension before a diagnosis

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Symptomatic

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  • Disease present WITH associated symptoms
    ex: Cold, Ovarian Cancer (this could start asymptomatic but eventually become symptomatic)
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Pathology and Physiology

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-The study of the structure and function of cells, tissues, and organs in the body
- pathology is a microscopic look of structure, while physiology is how the body functions

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Pathophysiology

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-The pathology and physiology of disease (altered health)
-Focus on mechanisms underlying disease
-Look at changes, but also effect on total body function
-Provides the basis for preventative and therapeutic health measures and nursing practice

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Etiology

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-Study of the cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of a disease or condition
-!!! Describes what sets the disease process into motion

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Etiologic Factors

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Root causes of disease

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What things do etiologic factors include?

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  1. Biological Agent
  2. Physical Forces
  3. Chemical Agents
  4. Nutritional Expresses or Deficits
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Most diseases are ____.

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Multifactorial (have many causes)

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Congenital (Risk Factors)

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  • Present at birth (genetic)
    ex: Cleft Palate
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Acquired Deficits (Risk Factors)

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  • Caused by events after birth
    ex: Concussion
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Framingham Study

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  • cohort study
  • Studied risk of developing coronary heart disease in the 1950s
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Nurse’s Health Study

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  • Cohort Study
  • Explored Oral contraceptives and breast cancer links
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5 Disease Risk Factor Categories

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  1. Genetic
  2. Disease Associated (past illnesses that increase risk)
  3. Treatment Association (No treatment is risk free)
  4. Environmental
  5. Lifestyle/Behavioral
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Pathogenesis

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-Sequences of cell and tissue events from initial contact with risk agent until expression of disease
- ITS THE EVOLUTION OF THE DISEASE PROCESS / describes how disease process evolves (this is different from etiology)

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Morphology

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  • Refers to fundamental structure (form) of cells or tissues
  • Both gross anatomical and microscopic changes from disease
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Histology

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Study of the cells and extracellular matrix of body tissues

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Lesion

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  • Represents a pathological or traumatic discontinuity of a body organ or tissue
  • Sometimes microscopic sometimes gross anatomic
    ex: Pimple, Tumor, Freckle - ANYTHING ABNORMAL
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Sign

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  • Objective manifestation of illness or disorder
  • can be heard, seen, measured, or felt
    ex: Fever, rash, wheezing
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Symptom

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Subjective evidence of an illness or disorder

ex: pain, dizziness, different breathing

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Syndrome

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-Compilation of signs and symptoms characteristic of a specific disease state
-There is no recognizable cause or special treatment for a syndrome

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Complications

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Possible adverse extensions of a disease or outcomes from treatment

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Sequelae

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  • Lesions or impairments that follow or are caused by a disease
    -Arise from previous disease (Chronic like a scar)
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Diagnosis

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  • Designation as to the nature or cause of a health problem
    -Involves weighing possibilities and selecting the more likely one
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What is diagnosis based on?

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  1. Health History (Subjective)
  2. Physical Examination (Objective)
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Deductive Reasoning

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  • General to specific
    -Concerned with rules for determining when an argument is valid
  • Syllogism: A–>B;B–>C; so A–>C
    ex: Blue Lips –> Need Oxygen
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Inductive Reasoning

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  • From specific to general
    -concerned with the soundness of inferences for which the evidence is not conclusive
    -“Probability Theory” - the probability conclusion is true based on evidence given
    ex: Sore Throat –> could be a scratch or possibly strep or something else
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Validity

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-Accuracy
-Does the measurement tool measure what it should

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Reliability

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  • Consistency
    -Does it give similar/same results when repeated
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Sensitivity

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Refers to the proportion of people with a disease who are positive on a test (True Positive)

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Specificity

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Refers to the proportion of people without a disease who are negative on a test (True Negative)

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True/False - Positive/Negatives

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  • Test Positive + Disease Present = True Positive
  • Test Negative + Disease Present = False Negative
  • Test Positive + Disease Absent = False Positive
  • Test Negative + Disease Absent = True Negative
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Prevalence

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Number of new and old cases of a disease present in a population at a given time (occurrences at a given time)

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How many SD are reference ranges within to be healthy?

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2 SD (95.5% of people)

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Where is abnormality in reference ranges?

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  • More than 2SD away from the mean
  • So, 5% of the population (2.5% on each side)
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Acute Disorder

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  • Self limiting and relatively severe with a cure being sought
    ex: a cold
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Chronic Disorder

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  • Implies a long term process
  • continuous symptoms and severity with exacerbation and remissions
  • lasts 3 months or more with no cure being looked for unlike acute disorder
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Exacerbations

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Varying degrees of aggravation of symptoms and severity of disease

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Remissions

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Period during which there is a decrease in severity and symptoms

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Subacute Disease

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  • Between acute and chronic (not as severe as acute, not as prolonged as chronic)
    -Not clinically apparent, needs an antibody/culture test done
    ex: Tuberculosis
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Preclinical Stage

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  • Disease not clinically evident but it is destined to progress to overt disease
    ex: Hep C
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Subclinical Stage

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  • not clinically apparent and not destined to become apparent
    ex: immune system handles it
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Clinical Disease

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  • Characterized by signs and symptoms
  • classic disease
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Carrier Status

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  • Individual harboring organism but without manifestations of disease
    -May not have disease, but can infect others
    ex: Typhoid Mary
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Congenital/Hereditary Disease

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  • Genetic Abnormality
    -Intrauterine Injury
  • (or) genetic and environmental factor interaction based
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Inflammatory Disease

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non specific reaction to an injurious agent

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Degenerative Disease

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Deterioration of various parts of the body

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Metabolic Disease

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Disturbances of cellular energy processes

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Neoplastic Disease

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  • characterized by abnormal cell growth
    -benign or malignant
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Incidence

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reflects number of new cases arising in a population at risk during a certain time

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Natural History of a disease

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Progression and projected outcome of a disease without medical intervention

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Prognosis

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probable outcome and prospect of recovery from a disease

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Stress (concept definition)

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  • Transactional or Interactional concept
    -State of affairs arising when a person relates to situations in certain ways (adapt or maladapt resulting in disease)
  • State manifested by a specific syndrome of the body developed in response to stimuli (stressors)
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People are ____ disturbed by situations per say, but rather by ____

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  • People are NOT disturbed by situations per say, but rather by THE WAY THEY APPRAISE/REACT TO SITUATIONS
    -the stressor may be real or perceived
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The body handles a stressor based on …

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how it is perceived. not necessarily how severe it is

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Homeostasis

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Purposeful maintenance of a stable internal environment maintained by coordinated physiologic processes that oppose change

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Physiologic control systems that oppose change are composed of?

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  1. Sensor (detects change)
  2. Integrator/Comparator (sums and compares incoming data with a set point)
  3. Effector System (returns the sensed function to within the set point range (reverse change))
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Cannon’s General features of Homeostasis

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  1. Constancy requires mechanisms to maintain it
  2. Steady state conditions need a change to be opposed with factors resisting change
  3. Regulating system of homeostasis has mechanisms acting simultaneously or successively
  4. Homeostasis NOT BY CHANCE (allostasis)
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Control Systems

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  • Interconnected components that function to keep a physical/chemical parameter of the body relatively constant
  • Many help maintain homeostasis
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3 Functions of Control Systems

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  1. Regulate cellular Functions
  2. Control life processes
  3. Integrates functions of different organ systems
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Stress Response

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Physical, emotional, and behavioral reactions to stressors put together

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Negative Feedback

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  • Maintains stability in the system
    -Going above/below the set point makes it return to set point
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Positive Feedback

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  • Interjects instability in the system
    -Makes a cycle where stimulus produces more of the same response
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Most of the body’s feedback mechanisms are ____

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Negative

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Endogenous

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  • Internal stimuli/stressors
    -Arising from within the body
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Exogenous

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  • External stimuli/stressors
    -Arising from outside the body
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Who made G.A.S.

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  • Hans Selye
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What does G.A.S. stand for

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General Adaptation Syndrome
- General - effect is a general system reaction
-Adaptation - response is in reaction to a stressor
-Syndrome - physical manifestations are coordinated and dependent on each other

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EP and NEP work through the …

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ANS

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Stages of G.A.S

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  1. Alarm
  2. Resistance/Adaptation
  3. Exhaustion
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Alarm Stage

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  • CNS aroused and body defenses mobilized
    -EP and NEP are released to increase heart rate, contraction force, O2 intake, and mental activity
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Resistance/Adaptation Stage

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-SNS response; Fight or flight
- Body responds to stressor and attempts to return to homeostasis
-Coping mechanisms employed

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Exhaustion Stage

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  • continuous stress causes breakdown of compensatory mechanisms
    -Body can no longer produce hormones and organ damage begins marking disease onset
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2 Factors determining the nature of the stress response

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  1. properties of the stressor
  2. Condition of the person being stressed: physical, psychological, emotional, social states
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3 properties of the stressor that are important?

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  1. Type (eustress/Distress)
  2. Intensity or Severity
  3. Duration
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Conditioning factors

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  • Influence of the adaptive capacity of the person
    -Development of stress related pathological process in-part depends on these
    -Can be internal (sex,age,predisposition) or external (exposure to environmental agents, experience, diet, social support)
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Stress Response is mediated by …

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  • the combined efforts of the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems
  • Integrate signals from neurosensory pathways and mediators in the blood
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Allostatic Load / Overload

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Persistence or accumulation of the allostatic changes of the body

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2 Systems the neuroendocrine response mediates?

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  1. HPA Axis
  2. SNS
85
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EP and NEP are ____

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Catecholamines

86
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What mediates the HPA axis?

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  • Cortisol
    > These are glucocorticoids secreted by the ADRENAL CORTEX
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What mediates SNS?

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EP and NEP
> these are catecholamines secreted by the ADRENAL MEDULLA

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What does HPA stand for?

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  • Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal
    > its the ANTERIOR PITUITARY
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HPA Axis Structure?

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Stress –> Hypothalamus (releases CRH/F into the hypophyseal portal) –> Anterior Pituitary (releases ACTH into the blood) –> Adrenal Cortex (releases Cortisol) –> Cortisol (functions in the stress response AND negatively feeds back into this cycle to mediate the HPA axis)

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3 Bad Effects of chronic Cortisol from chronic stress

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  1. Increased Blood Glucose
  2. Depressed Immune System
  3. Broken down into cholesterol
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Major body Glucocorticoids

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Cortisol

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Functions of Cortisol in the Stress Response

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  1. Helps break muscular protein into AA, and lipids into FA, and glycerol
  2. Uses FA,AA, and glycerol to promote hepatic gluconeogenesis
  3. Inhibits tissues from utilizing glucose, thus giving the brain more available glucose
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Permissive Action of Cortisol

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  • Allows a small amount of glucose to be used for lipolysis and bronchodilation for stress response
    -Inhibits immune response to prevent gland exhaustion
  • Metabolism. Lipolysis, and Bronchodilation !!!!!!!
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What is CRF/H?

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  • Corticotropin Releasing Factor/Hormone
    -Secreted by PVN of the hypothalamus
  • Mediates pituitary gland and induces its release of ACTH, while stimulating the adrenal gland to make cortisol/glucocorticoids
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ACTH

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-Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
- Released by the anterior pituitary to stimulate adrenal cortex to release cortisol/glucocorticoids

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SNS

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  • Sympathetic Nervous System
    -fight or Flight
    -Has many nerves controlling its functions
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PNS

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  • Parasympathetic nervous System
    -Rest and digest
    -Has one nerve controlling it/few (Vagus X)
  • works slower due to longer nerve
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Things the SNS does in the stress response?

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-dilates pupils
-inhibits saliva
-relaxes bronchii
-accelerates the heart
-inhibits digestion
-stimulates glucose release by the liver
-secretion of EP/NEP from the adrenal gland
-relaxes the bladder
-contracts the rectum

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Things the PNS does in the stress response?

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-constricts pupils
-stimulates salivation
-inhibits heart rate
-constricts bronchii
-stimulates digestion
-stimulates the gall bladder
-contracts bladder
-relaxes rectum

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Adrenal Catecholamines

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  • NEP and EP
    -Almost all NEP becomes EP
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Alpha Receptors

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  • Stimulated by NEP and EP
    -Found in arteries and smooth muscles
    -Causes vasoconstriction of arteries to help blood return to the heart
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Beta 1 Receptors

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  • located in the heart
    -when stimulated by NEP/EP they make the heart beat faster and contract more forcefully to increase cardiac output
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Beta 2 Receptors

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  • found in the lungs (2 lungs)
  • when stimulated by NEp/EP they cause bronchodilation
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NEP and EP purpose in the stress response

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  • keep blood glucose levels high, thus inhibiting metabolic activities
    > also vasoconstriction, bronchodilation, and increased heart rate
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EP causes what during stress

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-preparation for fight or flight response
-mobilizes energy stores and increases blood glucose and Fatty acid levels

106
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Cortisol causes what during stress?

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mobilizes energy stores by increasing blood glucose, FA, and AA

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Major Hormonal Changes in the stress response?

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  • EP, Cortisol, Glucagon levels increase
    -RAA/ADH levels increase
    -Insulin levels decrease
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RAA System Purpose

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  • Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System
    -increases with stress
    -purpose is to conserve salt and water
  • it increases plasma volume
    -it increase arteriolar vasoconstriction to maintain/elevate blood pressure
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ADH System purpose

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  • Antidiuretic Hormone System, or Vasopressin
    -increases with stress
    -increases plasma volume (controls water)
    -increases arteriolar vasoconstriction to maintain/elevate blood pressure
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RAA works mostly due to…

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Low flow states to the kidney

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How does the RAA system work?

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Low flow state to the kidney –> Kidney (renin moves into the blood to the liver’s angiotensinogen) –> Renin cleaves angiotensinogen causing it to become activated Angiotensin I (which moves into the blood toward the lungs)–> ACE in the lungs turns Angiotensin I into Angiotensin II (and II moves through the blood to the adrenal cortex) –> The Adrenal cortex releases Aldosterone –> Aldosterone holds Na+ in the Distal Convoluted Tubule, water follows the sodium, and iand increase in circulating volume and vasoconstriction occur

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RAA Controls?

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  • Sodium via aldosterone (but NOT WATER)
  • water just follows sodium
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ADH Controls?

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  • Water
    -Antidiuresis gets the kidneys to hold back water to increase vasoconstriction and circulating volume in the arteries
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ADH is released by?

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The Posterior Pituitary (1 of 2 hormones)

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HPA Axis Function in Stress?

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secretion of cortisol to mobilize energy stores to increase blood glucose levels, AA levels, and FA levels

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SNS Function in Stress

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EP release facilitated by cortisol leading to an icnrease in blood glucose, FA, and vasoconstriction thru alpha receptors thus leading to RAA initiation due to lower flow state

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RAA and ADH allow for what 2 things?

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  1. Increased Circulating Volume
  2. Elevated Blood Pressure (helps the body respond to stress)
118
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How does immunity relate to neuroendocrine?

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  • Immune system can help modulate neuroendocrine functions
  • but increases increased stress = decreased immunity
119
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Cerebral Cortex Neuroendocrine involvement?

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vigilance, cognition, focused attention

120
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Limbic System Neuroendocrine Involvement?

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emotional response (fear, excitement, rage, anger)

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Thalamus neuroendocrine involvement?

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  • it is the relay center for sensation
    > important in receiving, sorting, distributing sensory input
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Hypothalamus neuroendocrine involvement?

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Cxoordinated responses of endocrine system and ANS

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Pituitary Gland Neuroendocrine involvement?

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releases hormones that govern vital processes

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Reticular Activating System (RAS) neuroendocrine involvement?

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modulates mental awareness

125
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Stress pathways of neuroendocrine System?

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See slide 49/64 on stress slides

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Stress (neuroendocrine definition)

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state manifested by symptoms arising from coordinated activation of neuroendocrine and immune systems

127
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The stress response is meant to be …

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acute and self limited in response

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Pathophysiologic Changes (Failure of Adaptation) occur due to stress when…

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  1. A component of stress response fails
  2. Neural/Hormonal connections are dysfunctional
  3. Chronic or severe stressors that overwhlem systems
  4. Exhaustion occurs when these things fail
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Physiological Stress

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chemical or physical disturbance in the cells or tissue fluid produced by a change, in either the environment or within the body that needs a response to counteract it

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Components of Physiological Stress

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  1. Exogenous and Endogenous Stressors initiating disturbances
  2. Chemical and Physical disturbances due to stressor
  3. Bodys adaptational response to the disturbance
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Adaptation

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  • ability to respond to challenges of physical or psychological homeostasis and return to a balanced state
    -Influenced by individual differences
132
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What individual differences influence adaptation?

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-appraisal of the event
-coping mechanisms/strategies

133
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Physiologic Reserve

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-Adaptive capacity exceeding normal requirements
ex: save money for a rainy day

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Hardiness

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  • A positive forward moving outlook on life allowing a high adaptive capacity to cope
  • Also allows for a healthy perception of stressors as challenges rather than threats
135
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PTSD

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  • Disorder of stress response
    -“battle fatigue” or “shell shock”
    -caused by a major traumatic event
136
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Major Characteristics of PTSD

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  1. Intrusion
    2.Avoidance
    3.Hyperarousal
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Treatments for Stress Disorders

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  1. Relaxation
    2.Imagery
    3.Music Therapy
  2. Massage Therapy
  3. Biofeedback

N351: Pathophysiology I (11 decks)

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