Kin 2504 Final Questions – Flashcards
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What is America's biggest killer?
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Cardiovascular disease
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What is a hardening of the arteries as plaque accumulates, often at injury sites, in the inner linings of arteries?
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Atherosclerosis
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What is the most common for of CV disease?
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Hypertension
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What is the greatest killer?
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Coronary heart disease
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What is chest pain that is due to ischemia or reduction in blood flow to the heart muscle and surround tissues?
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Angina pectoris
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What is the irregular heart beat, can involve abnormally fast or slow heartbeat or the disorganized, sporadic beat of fibrillation?
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Arrhythmia
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what is the meaning heart disease is present at birth?
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Congenital Heart disease
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What occurs when a blood vessel burst, spilling oxygenated blood?
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Hemorrhage strokes
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what is the greatest risk factor for heart disease?
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Smoking
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Cardio vascular disease affects a disproportionate percentage of what race?
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African Americans
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There are numerous ways you can promote cardio vascular health through what?
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Better nutrition
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_______ most days of the week will help prevent Cardio vascular disease.
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performing 30-60 or more moderate activity
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what is the fastest growing chronic disease in America?
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Diabetes
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In healthy people, the pancreas secretes what?
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insulin
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Type 1 diabetes is what?
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autoimmune disease
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What is referred to adult onset diabetes?
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Type 2 disabetes
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What kind of diabetes can develop in women during pregnancy?
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Gestational diabetes
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What is it called when air passages to and within the lungs overreact to smoke, allergens, or other triggers?
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Asthma
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COPD refers to what two lung diseases that disrupt airflow and cause breathing problems?
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Emphysema and chronic bronchitis
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Rheumatoid arthritis is brought about by what?
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Autoimmune attack
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Must tumors are what?(noncancerous)
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benign
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Name given to a large group of diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread abnormal cells.
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Cancer
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process by which cancer spreads from 1 area to different areas of the body
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Metasis
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process in which malignant cells induce new blood capillaries to grow toward the tumor
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Angiogenesis
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Suspected cancer causing genes
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oncogenes
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B in ABCD stands for what?
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border irregularity
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The main cause of cervical cancer is infection by what?
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HPV
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Prostate cancer risk increases with age, 97% of cases occur in men over what?
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50 years old
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cancer of the blood forming tissues, particularly the soft, spongy marrow of the bones.
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Leukemia
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powerful targeted beams of ionizing energy that can kill cancerous cells
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radiation
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STI is an infection usually caused by what?
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viruses or bacteria
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is an infection spread through intimate contact with another persons skill or body fluids
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STI
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vaginal, oral, or anal sex without using a condom or other protection
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Unprotected sex
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Chlamydia is treatable with what?
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antibiotics if treated early
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Signs include heart and CNS damage, blindness, paralysis, premature senility, and ultimately dementia.
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Late stage syphilis
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there is no cure for what?
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Herpes
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what type of drugs are cheaper?
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Generic drugs
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Characteristics of addiction include what?
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denial
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What are the benefits of quitting smoking include?
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improved circulation, oxygen levels return to normal, improved sense of smell
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Condoms protect against the transmission of what?
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STI's
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Syphilis (is/isn't) a treatable STI.
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is
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What is the most important trait common to all successful relationships is what?
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good communication
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Most people with chlamydia have what?
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no symptoms
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several days after engaging in unprotected sex, John began to experience painful urination and a foamy yellow discharge. His symptoms suggest what?
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trichomoniasis
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Sue is 40 year old female who smokes, frequently uses tanning beds, and drinks 2-3 alcoholic beverages daily. which types of cancers would she likely get?
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breast, lung, and skin cancer
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People without access to health care are more likely to what?
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wait to seek attention for serious symptoms
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During their 20s and 30s, most people reach their peak in what?
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Strength, cardiovascular function, bone mass
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knowing your body, paying attention to its signals, and taking appropriate action to stop the progression of an illness or injury defines what?
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Self-care
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Tolerance to nicotine develops how fast?
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immediatley
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Using a drug for a purpose for which it was not intended is known as what?
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drug misuse
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The prodromal stage of herpes is characterized by ______ at the site of infection.
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Burning and tingling
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A fit and well lifestyle (quality of life) integrate exercise, nutrition and what?
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Stress reduction healthy successful relationships spiritual wellness
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Factors influencing environmental wells include what?
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Climate changes Pollution secondhand smoke
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Smoking contributes to heart disease by what?
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weakening tissues by oxygen deprivation contributing to platelet adhesiveness encouraging the build up of fatty deposits in artery walls
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Most skin cancer deaths are caused by
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melonomas
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a non cancerous mole is what?
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Symmetrical
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if a person quits smoking, their risk of heart disease decreases by 50% in approximately how many years?
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1 year
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ways to be proactive in your health care include what?
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asking your doctor to explain problems and possible treatment options knowing your family history when in doubt seek a second opinion
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"crabs" is another name for what?
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pubic lice
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A progressive decline in the maximum functional level of individual cells, organs and organisms is known as what?
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aging
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Leukemia can cause an increase in what?
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White blood cells
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When a doctor recommends you undergo a medical test, you should consider asking what?
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why is the test being ordered? whether the procedure requires an overnight stay? what are the side affects?
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Stress can increase the risk of cancer by what?
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weakening immunity
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HIV is transmitted via what?
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Semen blood vaginal secretions
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A drug which depresses the CNS is what?
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Herion
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Cervical cancer is caused by what?
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Human papilloma virus (HPV)
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In order to grow, a malignant tumor needs ____ and ____.
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oxygen, nutrients
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New approaches to treating cancer focus on what?
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treating cancer as a genetic disease caused by a mutation
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Alcohol use becomes alcohol abuse when what happens?
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interferes with work or school. entail any violation of the law. negatively affects social and family relationships.
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The idea that over time, an accumulation of damage from internal processes and environmental stress eventually wears the body out is known as what?
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wear and tear theory
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What occurs as a result of alcohol's effect on the central nervous system?
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pulse rate decreases
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Addiction is defined as what?
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Continued involvement with or use of a substance despite negative consequences
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A condition also known as fatty liver is called what?
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cirrhosis
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What are potential warning signs of cancer?
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nagging cough or hoarseness change in bladder or bowel movements a sore that does not heal
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what cancer is the most common for males between the age of 20-34
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Testicular
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cancer is localized and often treatable when it is in what stage?
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stage 1
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t/f. STIs can be transmitted from an infected mother to her infant
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true
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t/f. The best way to avoid STIs is to look for physical signs on a partner before engaging in sexual activity
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false
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t/f. Untreated STIs can cause infertility
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true
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t/f. there is no cure for viral STIs
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true
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A tumor that is non cancerous is what?
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benign
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Problems associated with long-term use of alcohol includes what?
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increased cardiac output shrinkage in brain size and weight high blood pressure
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Prostate cancer is most common for males in which of the following age groups?
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over 50
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An STI is a ________ infection?
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microbial
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Signs of aging include what?
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wrinkles and memory loss
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Hepatitis B can be transmitted via all the following except
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the HSV-2 virus
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what factors that influnce how quickly your body will absorb alcohol include what?
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Amount of food in your intestines your mood when you drink metabolism
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Side stream smoke contains more ______ than mainstream smoke.
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Ammonia and carbon monoxide
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Name three STIs that are bacterial infections.
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Chlamydia gonorrhea syphilis
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Teens and young adults are likely to contract an STI because they are:
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more likely to have multiple partners Less likely to use condoms consistently less less likely to practice "safe sex" consistently
