Non-communicable diseases Flashcards
What is a risk factor?
Factors which increase your chance of getting a certain disease, often lifestyle, the environment and substances in the body.
Many non-communicable diseases are caused by?
Several risk factors interacting.
Lifestyle factors have different impacts…
Locally, nationally and globally.
Developed countries…
Non-communicable disease are more common as they have money to buy food with higher fat, cigarettes and alcohol.
Nationally people from deprived areas…
Are more likely to smoke, have bad diets and not exercise.
Smoking has been proven to what?
Directly cause cardiovascular disease, lung disease and lung cancer by damaging the arteries and cells lining the lungs.
What may happen if a woman smokes while pregnant?
Could cause premature births, still births, miscarriages or smaller babies.
Obesity can directly cause what?
Type 2 diabetes as the body is less resistant to insulin so it is difficult to control the concentration of glucose in the blood.
Drinking too much alcohol can what?
Cause liver disease and affect brain function by damaging nerve cells in the brain.
Drinking/ smoking while pregnant can what?
Cause health problems for the unborn baby.
Cancer can be directly caused by?
Exposure to certain substances or radiation known as carcinogens.
Correlation in data…
Doesn’t always equal cause, some risk factors cannot directly cause a disease.
