BPK 140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Insulin, Blood Vessel, Myocardial Infarction
26 Jan 2017
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Chapter 4: cardiovascular disease and diabetes: describe the stages in the progression of atherosclerosis. A lesion to the inner wall of the artery and happens thousands of times a day throughout the body, and starting early in life. Once the lesion has formed, cholesterol begins to deposit between the layers in the artery wall. Over a period of months, calcium and other deposits gradually replace the soft cholesterol, and forms a type of hard scar tissue. Once these deposits form, the walls of the artery become very stiff and the artery does not adapt well to changes in blood pressure. Heart attack loss of oxygen in cells in the heart. Prevalence is the amount of people in the population that are infected. Incidence is the amount of new infections (in a year, for example) (c)compare the prevalence in canada of heart disease to living with effects of stroke.
