

1. Research Heart Disease and Cancer.
1. HEART DISEASE
A. Definition Heart Disease:
A Group of diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels.
B. Causes:
-High fat diet, smoking, heredity, not exercising, stress,
C. How HD is spread:
-Heart Disease is a noncommunicable disease.
D. Risk factors (who is at risk for getting this):
Eating a High fat diet, smoking, not exercising, heredity, leading a stressful lifestyle.
E. Atherosclerosis: (be sure to include symptoms)
A build up of fatty deposits on the inside of artery walls. Fat slowly builds up because of the risk factors.
F. What are some different types of Heart Disease?
1. High blood pressure (hypertension)
2. Atherosclerosis: Fat on artery walls.
3. Arteriosclerosis: Hardening of the arteries.
4. Rheumatic Heart Disease: Sometimes follows strep throat and can damage valves of the heart.
G. Treatments (at least 3):
1. Angioplasty: balloon in blocked artery and inflated to open artery.
2. By-pass surgery: Going around the blockage with a blood vessel taken out of the leg.
3. Medication and drugs to dissolve the clot
H. Prevention:
Do not smoke, eat a low fat diet, exercise regularly, manage stress.
2. CANCER
I. Definition of Cancer: Uncontrolled cell growth.
J. Causes:
Exposure to Sun, tobacco, high fat diet, radiation, chemicals/materials such as pesticides and asbestos, heredity, stress.
K. How is it spread from person to person:
Noncommunicable.
L. Risk factors (who is at risk for getting this):
People who do not use sunscreen, people who use tobacco, eating a high fat diet, being exposed to radiation, chemicals/materials such as pesticides and asbestos, heredity, stress.
M. Carcinogens:
Anything that causes cancer.
N. Asbestos:
A nonburnable material used in construction that can cause cancer when inhaled.
O. Treatment (at least 3):
1. Chemotherapy: drugs used to kill cancer cells.
2.radiation: x-rays used to stop and or kill cancer cells.
3.surgery: remove the cancer before it spreads.
P. Prevention
Eat a High fiber/low fat diet, do not smoke or use tobacco, use sunscreen, reduce stress, stay away from chemicals and high doses of radiation.