Health Chapter 14

What are uncontrollable risk factors?

Genes, age, and gender.

What should a person do to help prevent the development of a lifestyle disease?

Not smoke, exercise and have a low-fat diet.

How can lifestyle contribute to cardiovascular disease?

Lifestyle habits and behaviors such as salt and fat consumption, weight gain, and smoking stress the heart and increase your chances of cardiovascular disease. Exercise reduces your chances of developing cardiovascular disease.

What is NOT a type of cardiovascular disease?

Cancer.

What is NOT a treatment for cardiovascular disease?

Electrocardiography.

Smoking decreases the amount of oxygen that the blood can carry. How can this effect increase the chances that a smoker will develop cardiovascular disease?

Decreased oxygen in the blood makes the heart work harder and puts stress on the vessels, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Describe what cancer is and why it is so dangerous.

Cancer is a disease caused by uncontrolled cell growth, and it is dangerous because the cancer cells damage surrounding tissues. Moreover, cancer cells can move to other parts of the body and grow new tumors there.

What is the main cause of the type of cancer that results in the most deaths each year?

Tobacco use.

What is NOT a method of detecting cancer?

Chemotherapy.

Identify three cancer treatments used today.

Radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and surgery.

What are two ways that a person can safeguard their skin from ultraviolet radiation?

Using son block and not staying outside in the sun for long periods of time.

What is the relationship between insulin and glucose in diabetes?

Diabetes is a disease in which the body is unable to regulate glucose levels in the blood. Insulin is a hormone that helps treat diabetes by decreasing the level of glucose in the blood.

What are the major differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes?

Type 1 usually diagnosed in childhood and requires taking insulin. Type 2 occurs in late adulthood and can often be controlled with diet and exercise.

What are two ways to detect and two ways to treat Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

Detection urinalysis and glucose tolerance test. Treatment: Insulin and diet.

List two steps you can take to lower your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

Maintaining a healthy weight and exercising regularly.