Working with Participants with Health Considerations Flashcards
What is CHD?
Coronary heart disease
What is CVD?
Cardiovascular disease
What is Cardiovascular disease?
Any disease that affects, the cardiovascular system, principally cardiac disease, vascular diseases of the brain and kidney, and peripheral arterial disease.
What is peripheral arterial disease?
Any disease caused by the obstruction of large peripheral arteries, which can result from atherosclerosis, inflammatory processes leading to stenosis, and embolism, or thrombus formation.
What is another name for Coronary heart disease (CHD)
Coronary artery disease
What is the myocardium?
The muscle of the heart.
What is myocardial infarction?
An episode in which some of the heart’s blood supply is severely cut off or restricted, causing the heart muscle to suffer and die from lack of oxygen. Commonly known as a heart attack.
What is ischemia?
A decrease in the blood supply to a bodily organ, tissue or part caused by constriction or obstruction of the blood vessels.
What is Coronary heart disease?
The major form of cardiovascular disease, results when the coronary arteries are narrowed or occluded, most commonly by atherosclerotic deposits of fibrous and fatty tissue, also called coronary artery disease (CAD)
What is atherosclerosis?
A specific form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the accumulation of fatty material on the inner walls of the arteries, causing them to harden thicken and lose elasticity.
What are baroreceptors?
A sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure, as those in the walls of blood vessels.
What percentage of Americans over the age of 75 have hypertension?
70%
What are some risk factors for CVD?
Hypertension
Blood lipid disorders
What is the most common cause of sudden death?
CHD
What is the most common cause of death in people over 65 years of age?
CHD
Who is more likely to develop CHD, men or women?
Men - 10 times more likely.
What is considered hypertension (high blood pressure)
Systolic blood pressure over 130 mmHg
and/or
Diastolic blood pressure over 80 mmHg
What is SBP?
Systolic blood pressure
What is DBP?
Diastolic blood pressure
What is systolic blood pressure?
The pressure exerted by the blood on the vessel walls during ventricular contraction.
What is diastolic blood pressure?
The pressure in the arteries during the relaxation phase (diastole) of the cardiac cycle, indicative of total peripheral resistance.
What percentage of Americans over the age of 75 have hypertension?
70%
What is considered normal blood pressure for adults?
SBP <120 mmHg
and
DBP < 80 mmHg
What is considered elevated blood pressure for adults?
SBP 120-129 mmHg
and
DBP < 80 mmHg