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Correct Answers (100% Pass)
Cardiovascular Disease
✓ -Refers to a variety of diseases of the heart, blood vessels, or both
✓ -Includes: coronary artery disease (CAD), hypertension, stroke
✓ -Leading cause of death
Hypertension
✓ -Most common form of CVD
✓ -Abnormally high blood pressure
Coronary artery disease and stroke contribute to...
✓ highest death rate
What are the time trends for CAD mortality?
✓ Death rates have peaked in 1960's and have DECLINED on average
since them
What is the decline in CAD mortality rates due to?
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✓ -Decline due to improved prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary)
What is CVD often associated with?
✓ Atherosclerosis
✓ -Slow process of the build-up of atheromatous plaque
Thrombus
✓ Blood clot formed in sit within the vascular system of the body and
impedes/delays blood flow
Embolus
✓ Blood clot, air bubble, fatty deposit, etc. that has been carried to the
blood stream to lodge in a vessel and cause an embolism (blocking of
an artery)
Ischemia
✓ reduction of blood flow
Angina
✓ chest pains when the heart is not getting enough blood
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Infarction
✓ tissue died due to lack of blood flow, can lead to death
What are the most common fatal outcomes of CVD?
✓ -Myocardial infarction (heart attack)
✓ -Stroke
NIHONSN Study
✓ Interested in importance of genetic background or environment
✓ Outcome- environmental factors were the most important
Bogalusa Heart Study
✓ Found that children as young as 7 years old were forming plaques
✓ -Atherosclerosis develops early on
The NIHONSN study emphasized the importance of what type of risk factor?
✓ Environmental
What are the uncontrollable risk factors of CVD?
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✓ Age
✓ Sex
✓ Race
✓ Family History
What are the controllable risk factors of CVD?
✓ Hypertension
✓ Overweight/obesity
✓ Cholesterol
✓ Smoking
✓ Alcohol
✓ Dietary fat
What is type A personality?
✓ Involves competitiveness, sense of time urgency, hostility
✓ -One study found that these people were 2 times more at risk for CAD
(there were problems with the study)
Screening for CVD
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