HSCI 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Birth Weight, Prediabetes, Coronary Artery Disease
10 Jan 2018
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Chronic disease epidemiology prevention and control 3rd ed can be found on sfu library for now while we wait for the 4th ed to come. Types of chronic disease: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease, arthritis/musculoskeletal diseases, etc. Global pandemic of chronic diseases: chronic diseases have been one of the greatest public health challenges of all time leading cause of morbidity and mortality, silent pandemic that is systematically replacing infectious and parasitic diseasess. Global prevention of chronic diseases: 4 major groups, cancer, cardiovascular, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, they cause 36 million deaths/year and approx. Killers: chronic diseases are largely preventable, up to 80% of heart disease, stroke and type ii diabetes, over 30-40% of cancers, eliminating shared risk factors, tobacco addiction, unhealthy diet & obesity, sedentary lifestyle, harmful use of alcohol. Cardiovascular disease: cvd: a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels, hypertensive heart disease: due to hypertension high blood pressure.
