BHAN155 Study Guide - Final Guide: Healthy Diet, Metastasis, Melanoma
9 Dec 2016
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Chapter 12 outline: chapter 12, cardiovascular disease: disease of the heart and blood vessles, such as high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke, and congenital defects. Ich, behaviors, health factors: ich: absence of clinical indicators of cvd and the presence of specific behaviors and health factor metrics, the behaviors: Appropriate energy balance and normal body weight: the health factors: Having optimal fasting blood glucose without medication: heart function/anatomy. The cv system includes the heart, arteries, arterioles (small arteries), veins, venules (small veins), and capillaries. Atria, ventricles, arteries, arterioles, veins, venules: types- Peripheral artery disease (pad)- effecting lower extremities; legs, calves, feet, arms. Coronary heart disease (chd) : greatest killer, brought on by blood clot in coronary artery or when blood does not flow readily. Angina pectoris- not enough oxygen flow to heart muscle. Arrhythmias- irregularity in heart rhythm: tachycardia: abnormally fast heart beat, bradycardia: abnormally slow heart beat.
