lifestyle diseases
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What are lifestyle diseases?
Lifestyle Diseases
Lifestyle DiseasesThey are diseases that are caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other factors.
Causes: a person’sHabitsBehaviorsPractices
Controllable Risk Factors
Your diet and body weightYour daily levels of physical activity
Your level of sun exposureSmoking and alcohol abuse
Uncontrollable Risk Factors
Age- the body has a harder time protecting itself as it ages.
Gender- certain diseases are more common among members of one gender (men- heart disease, women- breast cancer)
Ethnicity- African Americans are more likely to develop high blood pressure, Mexican Americans- higher risk of diabetes, Asians lower risk of heart disease, European decent- higher risk of heart disease.
Heredity- You can inherit chances of developing certain disease just as you inherit your hair or eye color.
Lifestyle Diseases
Types
Cardiovascular DiseasesThe diseases and disorders that result
from progressive damage to the heart and blood vessels.
Treating cardiovascular diseases: Diet and Exercise, Medicines, Surgery, Angioplasty, Pacemakers, Transplants
Preventing cardiovascular diseases: Relax, trim the fat, hold the salt, keep your weight healthy, don’t smoke, get moving
CancerA disease caused by uncontrolled cell growth.Tumors are a mass of uncontrolled growing
cells that form a clump.Malignant- invade and destroys healthy tissue
Benign- harmless cell massCauses:
Certain viruses (HPV)Radiation (UV rays, X-rays)Chemicals in tobacco smokeAsbestos (material used in fireproofing)
Types of Cancer
BreastProstateRespiratoryColonUrinary
LymphomaSkinLeukemiaOvarianCervical
Detecting Treating
Self-examBiopsyX raysMRIBlood and DNA tests
Surgery-remove tissue
Chemotherapy-use of drugs
Radiation therapy-beam of radiation to fire at a tumor
Combination- use any or all treatments
Preventing Cancer
Don’t’ smoke!Wear sunscreen; stay away from tanning beds
Eat your veggies and cut the fat
Stay activeGet regular medical check-ups
Diabetes
A disorder in which cells are unable to obtain glucose from the blood such that high blood-glucose levels result.
Type 1- body’s inability to produce insulin (born with)
Type 2- body’s inability to respond to insulin (develop)
Hereditary Diseases
Diseases caused by abnormal chromosomes or by defective genes inherited from one or both parents.
Single-cell diseases- when one gene out of 30,000 to 40,000 genes has a harmful mutation.
Complex Diseases- More than one gene influences the onset of a disease.
Immune Disorders
The immune system does not function properly resulting in a immune disorder.
Some are relatively mild (allergies); others can be life threatening(AIDS)
Autoimmune Diseases
The immune system attacks the cells of the body that it normally protects.
Depending on the cells of the body destroyed, these attacks can result in many conditions.