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Can obstruct the birth canal.
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Condyloma
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Simplex I (cold sores fever blisters)
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herpes
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caused by a virus
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aids, herpes, condyloma
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"ping-pong" effecct
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Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
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U.S. 1981
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aids
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4 stages
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Syphilis
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can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease
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Gonorrhea and chlamydia
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uncomfortable to treat but rarely life threatening
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herpes
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Lazarus Syndrome
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aids
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'Chancre"
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Syphilis
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no evidence spread by slaiva or tears
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aids
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"clap"
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Gonorrehea
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latency period: invades brain heart
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Syphilis
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causes you to go crazy
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syphilis
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Karposi Scarcoma
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aids
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purple blotches on your legs rare condition and a form of cancer
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Karposi Scarcoma
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never goes away...hides in skin
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herpes
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oppertunistic infections
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aids
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burning sensation (urination:males)
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Gonorrehea and Chlamydia
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transmitted vaginally anally or orally
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aids
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scars on the fallopian tubes
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Gonorrehea
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progressive spinal cord damage
blindness, crippling, insanity |
Syphilis
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whitish pus from penis
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Gonorrehea, Chlamydia
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acts like gonorrhea
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chlamydia
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salivia test: lollipop test
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aids
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blisters on sexual organs
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herpes
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Elisa/Western blot is a test for...
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aids
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severe cardiovascular disease
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Syphilis
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grows near anus, penis, vagina, perineum
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Condyloma
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The aids capitol?
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New York
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People who were about to die od AIDS took this drug cocktail to get a little bit better
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Lasarus Syndrome
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Give STD to your partner. You get treated. BUT your partner gives it back to you
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Ping-pong effect
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study of cancer
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Oncology
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doctor who specializes in treatment of cancer
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oncologist
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has many diseases and common charachteristics
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cancer
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Cancer cells do not stop ___ and ___ at appropriate times and they do not ___ normally.
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growing
dividing differentiate |
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What do normal cells exhibit?
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growth
division differentiation |
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"on" switches that promote cell growth
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oncogenes
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"off switches" that slow cell growth.
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Tumor-supressor genes
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What mus take place for for a normal cell to change into a cancer cell?
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successive genetic changes
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Carcinogens
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cancer causing-agents
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cells that begin to form abnormally but are not yet cancer cells
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benign tumor
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remian in one place and do not invade surronding tissue and are usually not life threatening unless they are gwoing in a place where their precence interferes with a vital function.
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benign tumor
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cells that are abnormal and begin to form a mass
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malignant tumors
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invades body tissue and organs causing pain as they invade or press on nerves.
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malignant tumors
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carcinoma in situ
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cells are in one place
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ccells spread from where they develop
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metsastasize
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why do cancer cells/ tumors merastasize?
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becuase they need more oxygen and nurtiants to survive and it begins to secrete chemiclas that hold the tissue in place to break off and move to a vessel and travel to other parts of the body to form new cancers
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most common adult cancers...epithelium...outside layers lung, oral, stomach, skin, breast, colon, ovarian
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Carcinoma
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connective or muscle tissue
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Sarcoma
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blood
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Leukemia
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pigment carrying cells of skin
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Melanoma
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lympatic system
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Lymphoma
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Why have cancer death rates declined?
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early detection
progress in prevention treatments available have increased. |
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how many years without having cancer are you considered to be cured after you already had it?
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5 years
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examination to detect maligancies in a person with no symptoms
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screening
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to decect cancer by looking at skin and oral activity
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visual
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collecting cells (cervix, esophagus)
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microscopic examination
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diseases due to our lifestyle are casued by what decisions we make that directly effect our health...?
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exercise
diet smoking drinking expectations quality of life |
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what is the number on cause of death in the U.S?
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cardiovascular disease.
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atria (upper)/ venticales (lower)
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heart
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artaries that feed the heart muscle itself
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Corronary artiaries
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small veins (one way vaulve that prevents backfowagaint gravity and muscleaction helps mmove the blod back to the heart.)
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Vennules
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insertation of fiberscope transmits image from lighted end of scope to an eyepeice,
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Fiberoptic examinattion.
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x-rays of thin section of the body that the computer constructs into 3-D images.
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CT Scans
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uses magnent fields and rasio waves,
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MRI
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uses sound waves
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ultrasound
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oldest most common, cut out cancer and additional non-cancerous tissue (lung stomach, colon, bowel, liver, skin, breast.)
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surgery
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USed to treat localized cancers
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radiation
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energy or particles emitted from nucleus of an atom. Interferes with molecular structres of cells killing them.
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radiation
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This is used when preserving the tissue surrounding the cancer is extremely important to preserve such as cancer of the voice box
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raditation.
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an effective form of radiation is...
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proton therapy
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chemicales oral and intravenous injections. Kills cells particulary fast growing ones.
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Chemotherapy
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using the body's own immune system includes the use of gene therapy techniques.
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Biomodulation/ Immunotherapy
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cancer cells contain protiens called...
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anitgens
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cancer fight products
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caner vaccines
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a chemical caalled a photosensitizer, is administed to the pacient. The cemical reacts with a special type of light killing tumor cells.
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Photodynamic Therapy
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stopping the growth of new blood vessels. Tumors need thier own blood supplies to grow, bring oxygens nd nutriants and remove waste. Without the vessels, the tumors shrink.
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Antiangiogenesis Therapy
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take bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells from a donor and inject them into the cancer patient to resupply the patients bone marrow when it has been destroyed by chemtherapyor rdiation or to supply healthy stem cells to a person who has cancer of the blod forming tissue
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Bone Marrow transplant
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leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the US.
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smoking
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ABCD
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A- asymmetry
B- border; irregualr and ragged C- color, pigmentation not uniform D-diameter; greater the 6mill. |
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Name two cancers with unknown causes
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prostate
ovarian |
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Name the 7 warning signs of cancer
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1. cange in bowel or bladder
2. sore throat that dosen't heal 3. weird bleed, discharge 4. thickening of lumps in breast or elsewhere 5. indigestion or trouble swallowing 6. change in wart or mole 7. cough or hoarseness |
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name some breast cancer risk factors
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age
heredity White or African American exposure to estrogen (high mentrual cycles, early menarche, late menopause) no children high fat diets lack of physical activity 3+ drinks a week living in N.America and Europe |
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small capillaries that are one cell thick, This is where the exchange od substances occour
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Arterioles
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What does CAD stand for?
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Coronary Artery Disease
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sationary bloodclot
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thrombus
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floating blood clot
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embolism
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thrombus that blocks a coronary artery
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conornary thrombosis
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an embolus that blocks a coronary artey
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coronary embolism
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insudducuent blood
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ischemia
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thickening or hardening of the arteries
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Arteriosclerosis
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loss of elasticity or hardening of the these arteries
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sclerosis
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thrombus that blocks a coronary artery
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conornary thrombosis
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an embolus that blocks a coronary artey
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coronary embolism
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insudducuent blood
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ischemia
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thickening or hardening of the arteries
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Arteriosclerosis
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loss of elasticity or hardening of the these arteries
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sclerosis
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x-ray image of blood vessels
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Angiogram
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balloon- thread catheter in artery in arm or groin until it reaches cornoary artery, COmpresses plaque against arterial wall
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Angioplasty
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name treatments for Arteriosclerosis
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Angiogram
angioplasty MRI Antherctomy Stenting Bypass surgery TMLR - laser |
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WHat are symptoms of heart attact
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chest pain
swaeting shortness of breath nausea denial weakness anxiety |
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As heart muscle dies it may trigger abnormal elcetrical activity that causes the ventricals to beat irregualry
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Arrhythmia
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swollen waekened blood vessel, cerebal hemmorrhage occurs
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aneurysm
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CVA -cerebal vascular accident
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stroke
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artery supplying the brain becomes blocked preventing blod flow brain does not recieve oxygen and cells die
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stroke
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a type of arrhythmia - blood clots travel to the brain
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atrial fibrillation
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what are some rsk factors for developing cardiovasular disease
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sex
age race hereidity |
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presure against artery walls when left ventrical CONTRACTS
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systolic Pressure
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Pressure against artery wall when left ventricle RELAXES
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Diastolic Pressur
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major risk in heart attack and most important factor in stroke.
Inner walls of arteries are lined b a layer of smooth endothelial cells. Blood lipids cannont penetrate the healthy lining and star to build up on the walls unless damage is done to linings. |
Hypertension
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Risk facors for cardiovasucluar disease you CAN CONTROL
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HDL, LDL (cholesterol)
smoking hypertension exercise obesity diabetes stress |
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HDL LDL
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elevated blood cholesterol
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an amino acid used by the body to build proteins and carry out celluar metabolism.
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Homocysteine
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who lives the longest?
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challenges the mind
stong social network fit spirituality good diet healthy weight |
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maximn number of years that member of a particular species live when conditons are optimal
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life span
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average number of years that an individula who was born in a particular year can expect to live.
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life expectancy
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what are some impacts on aging
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menpause
delayed sexual responsiveness gray thin hair loss of height nearsightedness |
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What are the symptons of Alzheimer's Disease?
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forgetting who a perosn is
difficulty doing complex tasks hard time sleeping agressive behavior bizarre behavior |
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negative attitudes toward elderly people
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agsism
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what are the 5 stages that a person goes through psychologically as they change from a living person to a dying person?
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Denial
Anger Barganing Depression Acceptance |
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terrmination of brain function as evidence by loss of all reflexes and electrical activity of the brain.
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Brain death
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not providing life sustaining treatments or withdrawing such care
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passive euthanasia
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indicate wishes concerning treatment if they become incapacitated
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Advance directive
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identify a menatlly competent individual to serve as a health care surrogate or proxy to make decisions for you
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Power of Attorney
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legal document telling how porperty will be distribted
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will
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the state will divide everything for you if you do not have a will
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Probate
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YOU the person making the will
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testator
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if you die without a will the state laws determine prperty distribution
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interstate
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emotional state the nearly everyone experiances when they lose some one or something special with whom they enjoyed a close relationship.
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greif
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in 1968 how did the Harvard Medical School define death?
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1 absebce of electrical activity on brain
2 no spontaneous muscle movements, including breathing 3 no reflexes 4 no reponse to the environment |
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in 1981 they changeed the definitio to death as
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irreverible cessation of circulatory and respitory finctions
and irreversible cessation of all functionns of the entire brain including the brian stem |
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the cessation of vital physiological functions, particularly spontaneous cadiac and repitory activites, which produces a stae stimulating actual death but from which recovery is possibe through the use of resuscitation
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Apparent death
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gradual death of cell after all metabolic activity has ceased
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cell death
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extensive and irrverisble damage to the Central Nerveous System
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Functional Death
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