Training and Lifestyle Diseases

Question 1

What are the 4 main lifestyle diseases in the cardiovascular system?

Answer 1

coronary heart disease
atherosclerosis
heart attack
stroke

Question 2

what is atherosclerosis?

Answer 2

a build up of fatty deposits on the wall of the arteries.w

Question 3

what’s coronary heart disease?

Answer 3

it slowly narrows the lumen and reduces the ability of blood to flow easily through the vessels

Question 4

what happens as a result of the lumen slowly narrowing?

Answer 4

blood pressure builds up and the likelihood of blood clots are increased

Question 5

what’s a heart attack?

Answer 5

where a piece of fatty plaque can break away from the artery walls and block to coronary artery which results in it cutting off the oxygen supply to areas of the heart

Question 6

what’s a stroke?

Answer 6

a blockage in cerebral artery cutting off the blood supply to the brain or through a blood vessel bursting on the brain

Question 7

what’s the largest cause of death in the UK?

Answer 7

a stroke

Question 8

what does a sedentary lifestyle do?

Answer 8

reduce the levels of blood lipids and cholesterol and increases the proportion of high density lipoprotein to LDL

Question 9

what’s good cholesterol?

Answer 9

carries cholesterol away from the arteries to the liver to be removed from the body

Question 10

What is asthma?

Answer 10

where the airways are constricted due to inflammations

Question 11

what are the symptoms of asthma?

Answer 11

shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing caused by an irritant

Question 12

what can asthma be induced by?

Answer 12

exercise when air is cold and dry and received by an inhaler

Question 13

what is chronic obstruction pulmonary disease?

Answer 13

term for conditions where the airways become inflamed and narrow

Question 14

what happens over time with chronic obstruction pulmonary disease?

Answer 14

over time the inflammation lead to mucus production, damage to the alveoli and bronchiole walls