BACKWARDS- EXAM 3
Module 13 Risk factors during growth and adult health
1. Risk factor - a condition that when present over an extended period of time
significantly increases the probability of a common degenerative
...
BACKWARDS- EXAM 3
Module 13 Risk factors during growth and adult health
1. Risk factor - a condition that when present over an extended period of time
significantly increases the probability of a common degenerative disease or
increase the probability of premature death
a. Ex. low bone mineral density is an rf for osteoporosis
i. Don't see much during childhood and adolescence
b. Habits during childhood and adolescence can either + or - affect the
chances of disease or death
2. 2 types of prevention
a. Primary prevention - targeted @ factors that actually cause the disease
prior to the manifestation of the disease
i. Ex. immunizing children to protect them from infectious diseases
ii. Ex. performing regular weight bearing exercise & consumption of
calcium to prevent osteoporosis
b. Secondary prevention - attempts to slow the progress of a disease or
impairment that is already present in the individual or to prevent a
recurrence; after disease is already there; how do we slow that
progression ro how do we prevent an instance from happening again
i. Ex. person has myocardial infarction or a heart attack that they
survive, usually some sort of behavior mod like increasing
exercise, taking fat out of diet, quit smoking
3. Diseases
a. Atherosclerosis - presence of fatty streaks or lesions developing in the
arteries - is modifiable
i. As early as 3 y.o so some sort of genetic component
ii. Streaks will accumulate lipids over time and later become plaques
which enlarge and harden, may break off, causes smaller space,
heart has to work harder, increase risk of myocardial infarction
iii. RF: high fat diet, family history, inactivity, present early on
b. Hypertension - high blood pressure, occurs when the avg systolic or
diastolic pressure taken on a least 3 different occasions is = to or higher
than the 95th % for age and gender - disease is v. preventable
i. Readings are variable in kids - 15 % have intermittent
hypertensive blood pressure values (p. high)
ii. RF(adults) most are modifiable: family history, being overweight or
obese, sedentary lifestyle, excessive alcohol intake, high salt
consumption, smoking
c. Type 2 diabetes - "adult onset" - now in kids, correlates with increase in
obesity, diagnosed/seen earlier in life and in greater #, affects almost 7%
of adults americans, still increasing -
i. POC and smokers more likely prone to T2
ii. RF(adults&kids) - being overweight or obese, poor diet, being
sedentary ( all preventable)
4. RF in all 3
a. Smoking
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