Unit 8 - Chronic Diseases

Question 1

backround risk factors

Answer 1

age, sex, education, genes

Question 2

8 chronic disease misconceptions

Answer 2

see slide 13

Question 3

primary risk factors

Answer 3

• primary risk
• social and economic
• environment
• culture

Question 4

chronic disease in humans

Answer 4

effect of genes and environment

Question 5

heterochromatin

Answer 5

tightly packed DNA often unable to be accessed by RNA transcriptase

Question 6

epigenetics

Answer 6

changes in DNA not associated with sequences of gene in question
- result of DNA mod. (possibly)

Question 7

euchromatin

Answer 7

loosely packed DNA easily accessed by RNA transcriptase

Question 8

epigenetics and cancer

Answer 8

loss of DNA methylation casues abnormal activity

Question 9

2 factors of developing diabetes

Answer 9

1. inherited predisposition
2. environmental trigger

Question 9

type 2 diabetes

Answer 9

resistance to the effects of insulin or defect in insulin secretion (ass. with obesity)

Question 10

type 1 diabetes

Answer 10

autoimmune disorder in which antibodies are made to the cells of the pancreas

Question 11

personilzed medicine

Answer 11

personalising medicine to genes

Question 12

pharmaco-genomics

Answer 12

tailored drug remedies based on genes