SB5c Cardiovascular Disease

Question 1

What causes obesity?

Answer 1

Diet high in sugar

Question 2

What causes cardiovascular disease?

Answer 2

Too much fat deposited under the skin and around organs

Question 3

What does cardiovascular disease lead to?

Answer 3

~high blood pressure
~heart pain
~heart attack

Question 4

What is BMI used for?

Answer 4

Estimating amount of fat in someones body

Question 5

A bmi over what is considered obese?

Answer 5

30

Question 6

Abdominal fat is closely linked to what?

Answer 6

Cardiovascular disease

Question 7

What is the best way of measuring someones abdominal fat?

Answer 7

Waist : hip ratio

Question 8

BMI =

Answer 8

weight / height2

Question 9

what does tobacco smoke contain? 4

Answer 9

~carbon monoxide
~nicotine
~tar
~smoke particulates

Question 10

what do the harmful substances from tobacco damage?

Answer 10

the lungs

Question 11

how does tobacco smoke damage the body?

Answer 11

~some substances can be absorbed into the blood and transported around the body
~they can damage blood vessels, increase blood pressure and the risk of blood clots and heart attack

Question 12

how can we treat cardiovascular disease?

Answer 12

~more exercise to reduce blood pressure
~give up smoking
~medicines
~stents
~heart bypass surgery

Question 13

what does heart bypass surgery do?

Answer 13

diverts blood around the blockage

Question 14

stents?

Answer 14

mesh tubes to widen the blood vessels