BPK 140 Lecture Notes - Coronary Artery Disease, Saturated Fat, Peripheral Artery Disease
16 Jan 2014
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Chronic diseases are diseases that progress very slowly, often for more than 20 years before the body finally succumbs. Often these diseases were not as prevalent in past history because we died of other things sooner before a chronic disease could fully bloom. In addition, some things we have today, like pollution and super size fries, our bodies have never been prepared for. Such an attack upon our physiology becomes a chronic disease. We can usually treat the conditions of a chronic disease but we cannot cure it. Chronic diseases account for 75 % of the mortality currently in our canadian society. The chronic diseases below all have associated risk factors determined from epidemiological studies. Some of the risk factors are immutable (cannot be changed) such as age, gender, and genetics whereas others are mutable such as diet and exercise: cardiovascular disease, definition. Cardiovascular disease encompasses any disease of the heart or blood vessels.
