NUTR 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Peripheral Artery Disease, Antihypertensive Drug, Cardiovascular Disease

• School: McGill University
• Department: Nutrition and Dietetics
• Course: NUTR 344
• Professor: Kristine Koski

Document Summary

Lecture content: hypertension part i, prevalence, pathophysiology, consequences, diagnosis, classification, risk factors, dietary factors involved, hypertension part ii, pharmacological approach, dash diet and more, case study. Major forms of cvd: hypertension, atherosclerosis, peripheral vascular disease, heart failure. Leading causes of death (canada-2007: cancer 39, diseases of heart 28, used to be highest cause, cerebrovascular diseases 8, others. Organ damage related to ht: brain haemorrhage, stroke, eye retinopathy, vein peripheral vascular disease, kidney renal failure, proteinuria, heart lvh (left, ventricular hypertrophy); chd (coronary heart. Definitions + causes + classifications: systolic (contraction)/diastolic (relax, severity, benign family history of higher bp than normal not harmful, malignant occurring for other reasons (disease, diet, lifestyles, causes, primary/essential (95%, unknown etiology (highly genetic, familial, not genes well ided) Influenced by dietary and behavioural factors: secondary (5%, occurs secondary to another condition (renal, endocrine, or neurological disorders, ht typically asymptomatic (silent killer, classification (know normal and ht, need to measure twice (can have false results stress)