Unit 5- Non-Communicable Diseases/Cardiovascular System
a disease that is not transmitted by another person or
Non-communicable disease
environment
Hypertension high blood pressure 140/90
A blood disorder that has abnormally shaped red blood
Sickle Cell Anemia
cells
fat-like substance cholesterol is deposited on the inside
Atherosclerosis
wall of the arteries
Arrhythmia an abnormal heartbeat
blood clot blocks the flow of blood through coronary ar-
Heart attack
teries
the sudden loss of heart function, breathing, and con-
Cardiac arrest
sciousness
Hemoglobin Molecules on red blood cells that bind to oxygen
when the arteries to your brain are narrowed or blocked
Stroke
and too little blood reaches your brain
Blood cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the body
Red Blood Cells
cells.
Tumors abnormal body cells grow and spread very fast
considered non-cancerous because of the surrounding
Benign tumor
membrane
cancerous -:these can move around the body by the cir-
Malignant tumor
culatory system
Metastasis the spread of disease to another part of the body
Carcinogens cancer causing substances
sometimes the genes you are born with might carry a
Genetic Carcinogens
predisposition for cancer then
1/2
a disease that is not transmitted by another person or
Non-communicable disease
environment
Hypertension high blood pressure 140/90
A blood disorder that has abnormally shaped red blood
Sickle Cell Anemia
cells
fat-like substance cholesterol is deposited on the inside
Atherosclerosis
wall of the arteries
Arrhythmia an abnormal heartbeat
blood clot blocks the flow of blood through coronary ar-
Heart attack
teries
the sudden loss of heart function, breathing, and con-
Cardiac arrest
sciousness
Hemoglobin Molecules on red blood cells that bind to oxygen
when the arteries to your brain are narrowed or blocked
Stroke
and too little blood reaches your brain
Blood cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the body
Red Blood Cells
cells.
Tumors abnormal body cells grow and spread very fast
considered non-cancerous because of the surrounding
Benign tumor
membrane
cancerous -:these can move around the body by the cir-
Malignant tumor
culatory system
Metastasis the spread of disease to another part of the body
Carcinogens cancer causing substances
sometimes the genes you are born with might carry a
Genetic Carcinogens
predisposition for cancer then
1/2
