Diabetes
Cardiovascular diseases
Cancer
Early detection of cancer and treatment
Random
100
The pancreas doesn't produce insulin.
What is type 1 diabetes?
100
A general term for all diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
What is the definition of Cardiovascular Diseases?
100
A disease in which abnormal cells multiply out of control, spreads into surrounding tissues and other body parts.
What is cancer?
100
unusual bleeding or discharge, a lump or thickening anywhere in the body, a sore that doesn't heal, persistant change in bowel or bladder habits.
What are some caution signs of cancer?
100
high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
200
A hormone that is needed to convert sugar(glucose), starches, and the other foods into energy needed for daily life.
What is insulin?
200
Smoking, hypertention, elevated blood cholesterol, diet & cholesterol/saturated fats, and emotions.
What are some risk factors of CVD's?
200
How cancer develops.
What is exposure to a carcinogen?
200
medical exams and self exams of the breast, testicular, and skin.
What are ways for you to check yourself for cancer?
200
80%.
What is the amount of cholesterol made in our body?
300
Most common form of diabetes. The cells ignore insulin.
What is type 2 diabetes?
300
Cardiovascular diseases.
What is Aneurysm, angina, atherosclerosis, cerebrovascular accident, cerebrovascular disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and myocardial infraction?
300
Tobacco use, radiation, diet, alcohol, gender.
What are 5 risk factors of cancer?
300
Radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery.
What are 3 treatments of cancer?
300
6,000,000 deaths.
What is an estimate of the deaths of stroke?
400
Risk factors of diabetes.
What are obesity, sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy eating habits, family history and genetics, increased age, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and history of Gestational diabetics?
400
Around 81,000,000 people.
What are the estimates for the year 2005 for people with Cardiovascular diseases?
400
High red meat intake, High fat intake, low fruit and veggiea intake, low grain intake.
What are factors linked to higher rates of cancer?
400
Loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, weakness and fatigue, mouth soreness, hair loss, blood problems, and lower resistance to infections.
What are some side effects of treatments?
400
1940.
What is the year when the majority of deaths in the U.S. were cardiovascular diseases?
500
Medication-type 1-insulin, type 2-drugs that get the body tissues to use up more glucose from the blood stream, diet, and exercise.
What are some prevention and control of diabetes? Name all three.
500
a lipid, a type of fat found in the body. Having LDL means you have too much.
What is High cholesterol?
500
Colorectal cancer or colon cancer.
What is the most common form of cancer in both men and women?
500
Chemotherapy.
What is the most effective treatment for cancer?
500
Radiation therapy attacks cancer cells that are dividing. Learn how radiation is used to treat cancer and how the cell cycle affects cancer treatment.
What is how radiation therapy works?
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