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Lifestyle Disease
Health chapter 14
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Cardiovascular disease (CVD'S) | diseases and disorders that result from progressive damage to the heart and blood vessels |
| Blood Pressure | the force that blood exerts on the walls of a blood vessel |
| Detecting & treating CVD'S | electrocardiograms (EKGs), ultrasound, angiography - injecting dye into the coronary arteries to look for blockages, |
| Cancer | Disease caused by uncontrolled cell growth |
| Malignant Tumor | a mass of cells that invades and destroys normal tissue |
| Benign Tumor | an abnormal but unusually harmless cell mass |
| Metastasis | Process in which Cancer cells travel to other parts of the body,creating new humors |
| CAUTION | C-change in bowel or bladder habits, A-a sore that doesn't heal, U- Unusual bleeding or discharge,T-thickening or a lump anywhere in the body,I-indigestion or difficulty swallowing,O-obvious change in a wart or mole,N-nagging cough or hoarseness |
| Diabetes | disorder in which cells are unable to obtain glucose from the blood, resulting in high blood-glucose levels |
| Glucose | circulates through the body in the bloodstream |
| Insulin | a hormone produced in the pancreas that causes cells to remove glucose from the blood. |
| Type 1 diabetes | pancreas does not produce enough insulin |
| Type 2 diabetes | insulin is produced, but the body's cells fail to respond to the insulin |
| Diabetic Coma | a loss of consciousness that happens when there is too much blood sugar and too many toxic substances to the blood |
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