Lifestyle Diseases
Age, gender, race, and heredity
What are uncontrollable risk factors?
Number one cause of death for Americans over the age of 65
What is heart disease?
Most effective treatment when the tumor is small, has not spread, and is located where removing it will not damage surrounding tissue
What is surgery?
Condition that occurs when the body doesn't use insulin properly causing insulin resistance.
What is type 2 diabetes?
The use of high energy beams to kill cancer cells
What is a radiation?
A hundred years ago, these were the main cause of death in the United States
What are infectious diseases?
Diet, exercise, pacemakers, transplants, surgery, and angioplasty
what are ways to treat cardiovascular diseases?
A type of cancer that is related to processed meats.
What is colon cancer?
Hormone that causes cells to remove glucose from the bloodstream to use as energy
What is insulin?
The use of drugs to destroy cancer cells
What is chemotherapy?
Caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other factors
What are lifestyle diseases?
Blood vessel in the brain bursts or is blocked
What is a stroke?
Cancer- causing agents or substances that can also be responsible for damaging genes
What are carcinogens?
Blurred vision, frequent infections, and tingling and/ or numbing in hands and/or feet
What are symptoms of type 2 diabetes?
Kills over 40,000 American women every year.
What is breast cancer?
Anything that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other health problems
What is a risk factor?
Called the silent killer because many people are not aware they have this until they have a heart attack or stroke
What is high blood pressure or hypertension?
Used to detect possible skin cancer on yourself.
What are the ABCDE's of Skin Cancer (Assymetry, Border, Color, Diameter, Evolving)?
Obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol
What is a risk factor for diabetes?
Has been shown to increase risk for cardiovascular disease, possibly due to the physical effects which include raised blood pressure
What is stress?
Diet, body weight, daily levels of physical activity, level of sun exposure, smoking, and alcohol abuse
What are controllable risk factors?
What disease is the FAST (Facial drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulties, Time to call EMS) principle used for?
What is Stroke?
Type of cancer with the highest death rate
What is Lung/ bronchial cancer?
A loss of consciousness that happens when there is too much blood sugar and a buildup of toxic substances in the blood
What is diabetic coma?
A group of serious lung diseases that include empysema and chronic bronchitis
What is COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)?