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Pathogen

Any agent (usually a virus, bacterium, fungus, protozoan, or helminth) that causes disease.

Blood pressure, ultrasound, electrocardiogram, angiography

How cardiovascular diseases are detected

Cystic Fibrosis

Disease of the body's mucous glands

Lifestyle diseases

Diseases that are caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other factors

Skin, including mucous

Our body's first line of defense against disease

Genes

Segments of DNA located on a chromosome that code for a specific hereditary trait

Mutation

When a gene carries incorrect instructions

chromosomal diseases

When a person inherits the wrong number of chromosomes or an incomplete chromosome

autoimmune disease

a disease in which the immune system attacks the organism's own cells

sickle cell anemia

blood disease in which the body produces defective hemoglobin

cardiovascular disease

diseases and disorders that result from progressive damage to the heart and blood vessels

Protozoa

one-celled organisms that are larger than bacteria

Hemophilia

Blood disease in which the body produces little or none of the blood proteins necessary for clotting

Person to person, Food and Water, Environment, Animals

List 4 ways infectious diseases can be spread

age, race, gender, heredity

List Uncontrollable factors leading to lifestyle diseases

Complex diseases

More than one gene influences the onset of the disease

multiple sclerosis

Occurs when the immune system attacks the fatty insulation of nerves in the brain and spinal chord

Parkinson's disease

Occurs when the nerve cells in the brain that make dopamine are slowly destroyed

stroke, high blood pressure, heart attack, atherosclerosis

The 4 most common CVD

Virus

Tiny pathogens that survive and replicate only inside living cells