UNIT 27 Exercise and Coronary Heart Disease (week 8)

Question 1

According to the Center for Disease Control, nearly 950,000 Americans die from ____ _____ and _____ every year — that’s one every 33 seconds.

Answer 1

heart disease and stroke

Question 2

_____ ______ is the leading cause of death in the United States.

Answer 2

Heart disease

Question 3

heart disease:

Answer 3

Generally refers to conditions that involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attack, chest pain, or stroke.

Question 4

stroke:

Answer 4

Occurs when the blood supply to part of your brain is interrupted or severely reduced, depriving brain tissue of oxygen and nutrients.

Question 5

predominate contributing factors of heart disease:

Answer 5

too much saturated fat, 
too much sodium, 
too much alcohol, smoking, 
too much body fat, and 
not enough exercise

Question 6

“heart roulette” involves more than __ different diseases of the heart and its vessels.

Answer 6

20

Question 7

coronary heart disease:

Answer 7

Atherosclerosis (a condition where the arteries are narrowed by deposits of cholesterol and other material in the inner walls of the artery) of the coronary arteries.

Question 8

Essentially, CHD involves the

Answer 8

obstruction of the blood supply to the heart through the three coronary arteries
The narrowing, hardening, and blocking of these arteries through the buildup of lipids in the inner layers of these arteries lead to CHD

Question 9

more than one out of three individuals die from their first heart attack, and that more than 300,000 Americans annually die from heart attacks before reaching the hospital.

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

the beneficial effects of exercise for hypertensives include

Answer 10

lowering of blood pressure by suppressing the sympathetic nervous system, normalizing kidney function,
decreasing insulin secretion, and
altering the sensitivity of blood vessel receptors.

Question 11

hypertension:

Answer 11

Persistent high blood pressure. Readings as low as 140/90 millimeters of mercury are considered a threshold for high blood pressure by some authorities.