Unit 10

Final Exam

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What is coronary artery disease?
What happens during myocardial infarction, and explain why it can be fatal.
What are recommended levels for blood pressure, blood cholesterol, and LDL?
Discuss the differences between Type I and Type II diabetes.
What are the treatment triads for each type of diabetes?
What is the pattern of bone development and loss?
What are the lifestyle choices one can make early in adulthood to help prevent trabecular bone loss?
How can you protect yourself from developing CAD? Cancer? Diabetes? Osteoporosis?
Define what is meant by sexually transmitted infections and explain why these infections have reached epidemic proportions in the United States.
Identify the main high-risk behaviors that increase your risk of acquiring an STI.
Identify the most common types of STIs in the U.S. and describe the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for most STIs.
What is HIV disease? How is it different from AIDS? How are these health problems treated, and prevented?
Is there such a thing as “safe” sex? Why or why not?