Exercise & Disease
A disease that persists for a long time (>1 year)
What is a chronic disease
The number of minutes per week of moderate intensity physical activity recommended for health-related benefits
What is > 150?
The Massachusetts-based longitudinal study that was designed to measure the long-term effects of lifestyle factors on CHD risk
What is the Framingham Heart Study?
Stops counting as a positive risk factor after 6 months of not doing it
What is smoking?
Who is Dr. Jeremy Martin
This is sometimes called "The Silent Killer"
What is hypertension or high blood pressure?
Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that results in energy expenditure above resting levels
What is physical activity?
The epidemiological term used to describe the condition of being sick
What is morbidity?
The age for women when "age" becomes a positive CVD risk factor
What is > 55 years old?
Physical activity that is planned, structured, and has an objective
What is exercise?
Disease of insulin insensitivity, related to obesity
What is type 2 diabetes?
The systolic/diastolic blood pressure values that are considered "normal"
What is <120/<80
The term used to describe physical activity intensity relative to resting energy expenditure
What is a MET (metabolic equivalent)?
The one "negative" risk factor that can be protective against developing heart disease
What is HDL-C (high density lipoprotein cholesterol)
The specific name for the form of heart disease characterized by an increased build up of plaque on the wall of the coronary blood vessels
What is atherosclerosis?
The study by Morris et al. (1953) was among the first to show effects of exercise/physical activity on risk for this disease
What is CVD/CAD/CHD?
A BMI value of 31.2
What is obese; positive risk factor for CVD?
Number of new cases of a disease in a given time period
What is incidence rate?
The threshold (minimum) systolic and diastolic values when BP constitutes a positive CVD risk factor
What are > 130mmHg (SBP) and/or > 80mmHg (DBP)?
The two prerequisite courses for EXS 2770 (Exercise Physiology)
What are BIO 2215 & 2216 (A&P 1 & 2)
After heart disease, this is the next leading cause of death in the United States
What is cancer?
Type of disease prevention practiced by healthy individuals who exercise
What is primary prevention?
Term to describe the scenario of 1000 from a population of 100,000 were classified as currently having a disease
What is prevalence rate?
The type of prevention that is associated with helping an obese individual lose weight to prevent progression to more severe consequences
What is tertiary prevention?
Along with HDL-C and LDL-C, this is the other blood lipid classification that makes up "total cholesterol"
What are triglycerides?