1. Finish HD/Cancer Guide
2. Hepatitis notes. Asn #7
4. HEPATITIS

CC. What is Hepatitis:
A viral inflammation of the Liver.

EE. What is the major difference between Hep A and Hep B
Difference is in how they are spread.

-Hep A: Spread thru Contaminated food or other objects in the mouth. (fecal Oral)
-Hep B: Spread Through blood, such as sharing needles or touching infected blood.

FF. Spread:
-Hep A: Spread thru Contaminated food or other objects in the mouth. (fecal Oral)
-Hep B: Spread Through blood, such as sharing needles or touching infected blood.

GG. Risk factors: Sharing needles, contact with blood, eating/drinking conatminated food or drink.

HH. Jaundice:
When Liver is inflamed it causes it to not filter out the bile in the blood. Therefore, causes skin and eyes to turn yellow.

II. Treatment:
-No cure available.
-rest and treat symptoms.
-Gamma Globulin shots, vaccination to prevent infection, and immunglobulin.

JJ. Symptoms:
Fever, loss of appetite, upset digest sys, muscle pain, Jaundice

KK. Prevention:
-Prevention: immune globulin shots to boost imm sys.

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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.