LSU KIN 2504 Final Exam
Practice Questions & Answers
(Jacobsen] 2025
Broadly encompasses a range of diseases of the heart and blood vessels - ANSWER ✨✔---
Cardiovascular Disease
Can include other potentially devastating diseases, like heart attack or stroke - ANSWER ✨✔---
Cardiovascular Disease
A disease rough on by buildup of fatty, waxy accumulations that restrict or block blood flow -
ANSWER ✨✔---Cardiovascular Disease
What % of women and men under the age of 40 have CVD? - ANSWER ✨✔---9-10%
What fraction of Americanswer have some form of CVD? - ANSWER ✨✔---1/3
,What is the biggest cause of death in America and also the leading cause of death amongst men and
women? - ANSWER ✨✔---Cardiovascular Disease
T or F:
CVD can start early in life - ANSWER ✨✔---True
What two things does CVD affect? - ANSWER ✨✔---Heart & Blood Vessels
How does CVD affect cells? - ANSWER ✨✔---- Can't properly deliver oxygen & energy to cells
- Can't properly remove CO2 and waste from cells
Hardening/stiffening and restriction of the arteries due to abnormal accumulations inside the blood
vessels - ANSWER ✨✔---Atherosclerosis
What is a major factor in many forms of CVD? - ANSWER ✨✔---Atherosclerosis
Fatty, waxy, yellowish, sludge like debris - ANSWER ✨✔---Atheromas
Atherosclerosis causes __________ to accumulate inside arteries and arterioles - ANSWER ✨✔---
Atheromas
Hardened blockages of calcium salts, cholesterol, cellular waste, blood clotting proteins, and white
blood cells - ANSWER ✨✔---Plaques
Sustained high blood pressure - ANSWER ✨✔---Hypertension
What is the most common form of CVD? - ANSWER ✨✔---Hypertension
Greatest killer of the CVD's - ANSWER ✨✔---Coronary Heart Disease
, Caused by atherosclerosis in the heart's main blood vessles - ANSWER ✨✔---Coronary Heart
Disease
What is it called when the symptoms of Coronary Heart Disease occurs in the feet, ankles, calves, hands,
forearms, etc.? - ANSWER ✨✔---Peripheral Artery Disease
Chest pain cause by ischemia - ANSWER ✨✔---Angina Pectoris
Reduction of the heart's blood and oxygen supply - ANSWER ✨✔---Ischemia
Irregular heartbeat; relatively common; the disturbance of heartbeat rhythm - ANSWER ✨✔---
Arrhythmias
Racing heart in absence of exercise or because of anxiety - ANSWER ✨✔---Tachycardia
What three things can cause arrhythmias? - ANSWER ✨✔---1. Fibrillation
2. Tachycardia
3. Bradycardia
*FTB*
Sporadic, quivering patterns of the heart - ANSWER ✨✔---Fibrillation
Abnormally slow heartbeat - ANSWER ✨✔---Bradycardia
*B* for *B*ottom
Practice Questions & Answers
(Jacobsen] 2025
Broadly encompasses a range of diseases of the heart and blood vessels - ANSWER ✨✔---
Cardiovascular Disease
Can include other potentially devastating diseases, like heart attack or stroke - ANSWER ✨✔---
Cardiovascular Disease
A disease rough on by buildup of fatty, waxy accumulations that restrict or block blood flow -
ANSWER ✨✔---Cardiovascular Disease
What % of women and men under the age of 40 have CVD? - ANSWER ✨✔---9-10%
What fraction of Americanswer have some form of CVD? - ANSWER ✨✔---1/3
,What is the biggest cause of death in America and also the leading cause of death amongst men and
women? - ANSWER ✨✔---Cardiovascular Disease
T or F:
CVD can start early in life - ANSWER ✨✔---True
What two things does CVD affect? - ANSWER ✨✔---Heart & Blood Vessels
How does CVD affect cells? - ANSWER ✨✔---- Can't properly deliver oxygen & energy to cells
- Can't properly remove CO2 and waste from cells
Hardening/stiffening and restriction of the arteries due to abnormal accumulations inside the blood
vessels - ANSWER ✨✔---Atherosclerosis
What is a major factor in many forms of CVD? - ANSWER ✨✔---Atherosclerosis
Fatty, waxy, yellowish, sludge like debris - ANSWER ✨✔---Atheromas
Atherosclerosis causes __________ to accumulate inside arteries and arterioles - ANSWER ✨✔---
Atheromas
Hardened blockages of calcium salts, cholesterol, cellular waste, blood clotting proteins, and white
blood cells - ANSWER ✨✔---Plaques
Sustained high blood pressure - ANSWER ✨✔---Hypertension
What is the most common form of CVD? - ANSWER ✨✔---Hypertension
Greatest killer of the CVD's - ANSWER ✨✔---Coronary Heart Disease
, Caused by atherosclerosis in the heart's main blood vessles - ANSWER ✨✔---Coronary Heart
Disease
What is it called when the symptoms of Coronary Heart Disease occurs in the feet, ankles, calves, hands,
forearms, etc.? - ANSWER ✨✔---Peripheral Artery Disease
Chest pain cause by ischemia - ANSWER ✨✔---Angina Pectoris
Reduction of the heart's blood and oxygen supply - ANSWER ✨✔---Ischemia
Irregular heartbeat; relatively common; the disturbance of heartbeat rhythm - ANSWER ✨✔---
Arrhythmias
Racing heart in absence of exercise or because of anxiety - ANSWER ✨✔---Tachycardia
What three things can cause arrhythmias? - ANSWER ✨✔---1. Fibrillation
2. Tachycardia
3. Bradycardia
*FTB*
Sporadic, quivering patterns of the heart - ANSWER ✨✔---Fibrillation
Abnormally slow heartbeat - ANSWER ✨✔---Bradycardia
*B* for *B*ottom
