Noninfectious diseases

Name two risk factors you can control and two risk factors you cannot control.

Controllable: what you eat, how much you exercise, if you smoke, if you drink Uncontrollable: age, gender, race

Arthritis

joint pain or joint disease.

State a healthy blood pressure

120/80 or lower

Carcinogen

A cancer causing agent in the environment biological

Oncogene

A cancer causing gene

What is a chronic disease?

A chronic disease is a disease that persists for a long period of TIME or recurs throughout life.

What is a pathogen?

A pathogen is a microorganism that enters the body and causes an infectious disease.

What is a risk factor?

A risk factor is something that makes a person more likely to get a disease.

Arrhythmia

An arrhythmia is an abnormal heart rhythm. When arrhythmias are severe or long-lasting, the heart may not be able to pump enough blood to the body.

What is the difference between an infectious disease and a noninfectious disease? What are the causes of each?

An infectious disease can be spread and is caused by a pathogen. A noninfectious disease cannot be spread and is caused different factors.

What is atherosclerosis? Explain the relationship between atherosclerosis and blood pressure.

Atherosclerosis is a condition in which plaque builds up in the artery walls. It is often caused by a diet that is high in cholesterol. Atherosclerosis causes blood pressure to rise because the same amount of blood is being pushed through a smaller space.

What is a heart attack? What is a stroke? How are they similar, and how are they different?

Heart attack: A heart attack is an event which occurs when some of the tissue in the heart doesn't receive its normal blood supply and dies. The cause is usually a blood clot in an artery that has been narrowed by atherosclerosis._ _ Stroke: A stroke happens in the brain.

Histamine

Histamine is an organic nitrogenous compound involved in local immune responses

What are the types of cardiovascular diseases?

Hypertension, Atherosclerosis, Arrhythmia

Remission

Most cancers are considered in remission if there is no sign of disease for 5 years after the treatments end

Biopsy

The removal of a small piece of tissue for examination

metastasis

The tumor cells spread from the lungs to other parts of the body

List four common pathogens.

bacteria, viruses, protozoans, and fungi

What three types of risk factors cause noninfectious disease?

behavioral, environmental, hereditary*

What three types of risk factors cause chronic disease?

environmental such as POLLUTANTS IN THE AIR behavioral such as SMOKING OR DRINKING ALCOHOL genetic such as DNA MUTATIONS OR FAMILY HISTORY OF DISEASE