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21 Cards in this Set
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Smoking cigarettes makes you how much more at risk for a heart attack than a nonsmoker
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twice
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HDL
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high density lipoproteins "good" cholesterol
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LDL
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low density lipoproteins "bad" cholesterol
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hypertension
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sustained abnormally high blood pressue
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atherosclerosis
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CVD which the inner layers of the artery walls are made thick and irregular by deposists of a fatty substance and the inner channels get smaller, decreasing blood flow
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lipoproteins
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blood fats formed in the liver that carry cholesterol throughout the body
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What do LDL do?
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take cholesterol from the liver to the organs and tissues that need it
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What do HDL do?
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shuttle unused cholesterol back to the liver for recycling
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What is an optimal level of cholesterol?
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Below 100 LDL
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What is a High level of cholesterol?
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Over 160 LDL
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What are risk factors that lead to high cholesterol?
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Smoking, Physical inactivity, obesity, diabetes,
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What are triglycerides?
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blood fats obtained from food that are manufactured in the body
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What are social and psychological factors that effect high cholesterol?
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stress, chronic hostility, suppressing psychological distress, depression, social isolation, low socioeconomic status
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What are risk factors to a high cholesterol that can't be changed?
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family history, aging, being male, ethnicity
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plaque
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a deposit of fatty substances on the inner wall of the arteries
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CHD
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coronary heart disease
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angina pectoris
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a condition in which the heart muscle does not receive enough blood causing sever pain in the chest and often in the left arm and shoulder
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Symptoms of a heart attack
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shortness of breath
weakness unusual fatigue cold sweat dizziness nausea |
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stroke
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impeded blood supply to some part of teh brain resulting in the destruction of brain cells
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rheumatic fever
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a child's diseas that damages with heart muscle
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congestive heart failure
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a condition resulting from the heart's inability to pump out all the blood that returns to it.
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