What are lifestyle diseases?

Lifestyle Diseases

Lifestyle DiseasesThey are diseases that are caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other factors.

Causes: a person’sHabitsBehaviorsPractices

Controllable Risk Factors

Your diet and body weightYour daily levels of physical activity

Your level of sun exposureSmoking and alcohol abuse

Uncontrollable Risk Factors

Age- the body has a harder time protecting itself as it ages.

Gender- certain diseases are more common among members of one gender (men- heart disease, women- breast cancer)

Ethnicity- African Americans are more likely to develop high blood pressure, Mexican Americans- higher risk of diabetes, Asians lower risk of heart disease, European decent- higher risk of heart disease.

Heredity- You can inherit chances of developing certain disease just as you inherit your hair or eye color.

Lifestyle Diseases

Types

Cardiovascular DiseasesThe diseases and disorders that result

from progressive damage to the heart and blood vessels.

Treating cardiovascular diseases: Diet and Exercise, Medicines, Surgery, Angioplasty, Pacemakers, Transplants

Preventing cardiovascular diseases: Relax, trim the fat, hold the salt, keep your weight healthy, don’t smoke, get moving

CancerA disease caused by uncontrolled cell growth.Tumors are a mass of uncontrolled growing

cells that form a clump.Malignant- invade and destroys healthy tissue

Benign- harmless cell massCauses:

Certain viruses (HPV)Radiation (UV rays, X-rays)Chemicals in tobacco smokeAsbestos (material used in fireproofing)

Types of Cancer

BreastProstateRespiratoryColonUrinary

LymphomaSkinLeukemiaOvarianCervical

Detecting Treating

Self-examBiopsyX raysMRIBlood and DNA tests

Surgery-remove tissue

Chemotherapy-use of drugs

Radiation therapy-beam of radiation to fire at a tumor

Combination- use any or all treatments

Preventing Cancer

Don’t’ smoke!Wear sunscreen; stay away from tanning beds

Eat your veggies and cut the fat

Stay activeGet regular medical check-ups

Diabetes

A disorder in which cells are unable to obtain glucose from the blood such that high blood-glucose levels result.

Type 1- body’s inability to produce insulin (born with)

Type 2- body’s inability to respond to insulin (develop)

Hereditary Diseases

Diseases caused by abnormal chromosomes or by defective genes inherited from one or both parents.

Single-cell diseases- when one gene out of 30,000 to 40,000 genes has a harmful mutation.

Complex Diseases- More than one gene influences the onset of a disease.

Immune Disorders

The immune system does not function properly resulting in a immune disorder.

Some are relatively mild (allergies); others can be life threatening(AIDS)

Autoimmune Diseases

The immune system attacks the cells of the body that it normally protects.

Depending on the cells of the body destroyed, these attacks can result in many conditions.