Advancing age - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The single most important risk factor for the development of cancer is: Correct Answer-Advancing age An example of a primary prevention strategy for reducing cancer risk would be: A. Yearly mammography for women older than 40 years B. Using skin protection during sun exposure at the beach C. Colonoscopy at age 50 years and then every 10 years D. Yearly prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test and digital rectal Correct Answer-B A malignant tumor has metastasized from the lungs to the...

Modules 4-6: NUR 2063 / NUR2063 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Essentials of Pathophysiology Review-Questions and Verified Answers - Rasmussen Q: What is Peptic Ulcer Disease (PUD) Answer: Ulcers affecting the mucosa of the stomach or duodenum Q: What are common risk factors for PUD Answer: NSAID use — long term inflammation and irritation H. pylori infections Q: What organs are included in the Hepatobiliary System? Answer: Liver, gallbladder and pancreas Q: Hepatitis...

AANP Practice Questions Answered 100% correct A 65-year-old woman presents for a follow-up examination after a new patient visit. She has not seen a healthcare provider for several years. She is a smoker and her hypertension is now adequately controlled with medication. Her mother died at age 40 from a heart attack. The fasting lipid profile shows cholesterol = 240 mg/dL, HDL = 30, and LDL = 200. In addition to starting Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes, the nurse practitioner should start the pati...

NURS 306 Quiz 5 Question and answers 100% correct Causes of bleeding in the first trimester - correct answer spontaneous abortion and ectopic pregnancy Causes of bleeding in the second trimester - correct answer gestational trophoblastic disease Causes of bleeding in the third trimester - correct answer placenta previa, abruptio placentae, preterm labor, vasa previa Risk factors for spontaneous abortion - correct answer ● Chromosomal abnormalities (account for 50%) ● Ma...

o Test Bank for Life-Span Development , 18th Edition By John Santrock RATING Student name: 1) Identify the term that refers to the characteristics of people as males and females. 2) According to Paul Baltes, what is a co-construction of biological, cultural, and individual factors working together? 3) In the context of conceptions of age, age refers to connectedness with others and the social roles individuals adopt. 4) theorists emphasize that behavior is...

A 60 year old obese male client has type 2 diabetes mellitus and a lipid panel of TC=250 HDL=32 LDL=165. The nurse practitioner teaches the patient about his modifiable cardiac risk factors, which include: a. diabetes, obesity and hyperlipidemia b. advancing age, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and male gender c. hyperlipidemia, smoking and family history of heart disease d. male with age >45, diabetes mellitys and hyperlipidemia a. diabetes, obesity and hyperlipidemia When treating infl...

1. The science devoted to studying the aging process? correct answers Gerontology 2. The term used to define biological or physical aging? correct answers Senescence 3. Young adulthood is considered to cover which years? correct answers 20 - 44 4. Older adulthood is the stage in life where the individual begins the process of retrospection. correct answers False 5. Loss of estrogen contributes to calcium loss which is the cause of this condition? correct answers Osteoporosis 6. Ac...

Daniel, age 45, is of Northern European ancestry and has a dysfunctional and disfiguring condition affecting the palmar tissue under the skin of the distal palm and fourth and fifth fingers. What do you suspect? - Dupuytren contracture. When teaching Alice, age 77, to use a cane because of osteoarthritis of her left knee, an important point to stress is: - Advancing the cane with the ipsilateral leg. The nurse practitioner suspects adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in Victoria, age 15, who i...

adolescent- factors in pregnancy/ IP - answer-Prone to late entry to care and poor compliance with AP schedule Increased risk for LBW and PTL; HTN disorders in pregnancy; PTL and PTB, IUGR, infant mortality Advanced maternal age (older than 35 years) - answer-Higher incidence of infertility and 1st-trimester SAB and ectopic pregnancy Proportional increase in rates of genetic abnormalities with advancing age increased rates of complications including: HTN disorders of pregnancy PTB...