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Week 9: Degenerative Diseases Flashcards

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What is the mortality transition?

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Decreases in the rates of death for age groups across the lifespan

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What happens when the mortality transition is lower?

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Life expectancy increases

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what happens when the mortality and fertility transition occur together?

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the number of older adults grows at a faster rate than the number of children

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What is the aging transition?

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The percentage of the population represented by older adults increases as the percentage of children shrinks

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Increases in longevity are a success when…

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extra years are healthy ones

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Most adults experience how many years of disability prior to their death?

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10 years

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What are the three developmental stages of adulthood?

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  1. early adulthood (20-39)
  2. middle adulthood (40-64)
  3. late adulthood (65+)
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Public health goals focus on what stages of adulthood?

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early and middle

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what are the most common causes of death in early adulthood?

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Injuries and infections (by middle adulthood the burden is NCDs)

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True or false. any death of a young or early adulthood is considered premature death?

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true

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What is the most common cause of YLD in early adulthood?

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mental health disorders, especially depression

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What are the most common causes of YLD in middle adulthood?

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musckulosketeal disorders (especially low back pain)

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what is the most cost effective way to improve the health status of older adults?

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prevent or delay NCD onset

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what is the dependency ratio?

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the number of dependent children on older people for every person of working age (15-64)

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what is the elderly support ratio?

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any number of peoples ages 15-64 for every 100 people age 65+ in a population

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what is the aging index?

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the number of people 65+ for every 100 children under age 15

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the dependency ratio is ___ in high income countries and ___ in low income countries

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increasing; decreasing

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is the elderly support ratio increasing or decreasing in high and middle income countries? Hint: aging index follows the same trend

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increasing

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Onset for AD is usually what age group?

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65+

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Incidence and prevalence of AD is highest where?

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in developed nations where there is a greater number of older adults

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what are AD early symptoms?

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-mood swings, behavioural changes, deficits, confusion, irritability

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Dementia accounts for _% of YLD in 60+

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11.2

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what is the hallmark of AD?

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loss of neurons in the brain

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the healthy adult brain has how many neurons?

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100 billion

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why do older memories last longer?
because they do not depend as much on the hippocampus
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what is affected later than the hippocampus?
amygdala
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amyloid forms plaques ___ while tau forms ___
outside of cells; tangles inside them
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Is AD higher among women or men?
women
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the survival after AD diagnosis is reduced by at least __ compared to the general population
50%
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survival and case fatality rates depend on what?
- level of care - age and gender at diagnosis - ratio of disease progression - severity of the disease at diagnosis
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who survives AD longer?
- younger > older patients - women survive longer than men - patients with mild disability at diagnosis
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Incidence __ after age 65
doubles
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what are risk factors for AD?
- hypertension - tobacco smoking - insulin resistance and diabetes - obesity - genetics
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Weight loss with dementia diagnosis
is associated with greater disease severity and mortality rate
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What are 3 protective factors for AD?
- ERT - NSIDs - anti-angiogenic drugs
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What is PD?
a degenerative disorder of the CNS involving death and destruction fo dopamine synthesizing neurons of the substantia nigra of the midbrain
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what causes PD?
depletion of the neurotransmitter dopamine
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PD symptoms
bradykinesia, cogwheel rigidity of the joints, difficulty walking, loss of balance, tremor and shaking of extremities
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what is the second most common brain disease next to AD?
PD
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what is the average age of diagnosis for PD?
60
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2 of what 3 symptoms are needed for a PD diagnosis?
resting tremor, stiffness, slowness of movement
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what does dopamine do?
signal feelings of motivation and reward
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true or false. PD diagnosis is two-fold higher in men than women starting at age 50
true
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true or false. there is no protective effect of smoking
false
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dementia affects how many PD patients?
2/3
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which polymorphism elevates dementia risk?
APOE
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risk of death compared to general pop is how much higher for PD patients?
1.6x
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what is the most common medication for PD?
levodopa
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what is a downside of levodopa?
produces cognitive decline
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populations with highest DALY for PD are?
war torn countries
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what are some PD risk factors?
- genetics - maganese exposure - pesticides and herbicides (dose-response relationship) - 2x increased risk in relatives who have the disease
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what are protective factors for PD?
- tobacco smoking - NSAIDs - coffee consumption
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what drug is the gold standard for PD?
lovadopa especially for motor symptoms. Prevents motor complications and psychosis
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what 3 drugs are used for PD?
- lovodopa - dopamine agonists - monoanise oxygen inhibitors
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what is MS?
an autoimmune inflammatory disease in which the myelin sheaths surrounding the axons of neurons (nerve cells) are damaged or destroyed
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what is the usual age of onset for MS?
20-40
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where does the name sclerosis come from?
scar in the white matter of the brain and spinal cord
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what is myelin?
a lipoprotein synthesized by gilia cells
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what happens when myelin is lost?
nerve cells cannot effectively conduct impulses
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true or false? MS is more prevalent among women?
true
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what is the average MS life expectancy?
20 years after being diagnosed
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in terms of MS prevalence there are __ rates in high income countries and ___ rates in low income countries
high; low
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why is MS and autoimmune diseases more common in females?
incompatibility of x chromosomes
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what is usually used for MS management?
corticosteroids

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