What are NCDs? Correct Answer - diseases or medical
conditions with a longer duration and relatively slow progression
Usually called "chronic diseases"
Proportion of deaths attributed to NCDs worldwide? Correct
Answer - 36/57 or 63%
What are cerebrovascular diseases? Correct Answer - related
to blood vessels supplying the brain
*hypertension is the most important cause
Proportion of global NCD deaths under the age of 70 Correct
Answer - 1 - cardiovascular disease
2 - cancers
Injuries, noncommunicable diseases, and
communicable/maternal/perinatal/and nutritional conditions
Correct Answer - communicable/maternal/perinatal/and
nutritional conditions dominant in low income only.
(low middle income, upper middle income, high income)
Distribution of global NCD by cause of death as people age Correct
Answer - more likely to be cardiovascular diseases than cancer
Graph showing the projected mortality trends from 2008 to 2030
for NCDs, CVDs, and communicable diseases Correct Answer -
cardiovascular disease, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases all
rise.
, US vs China in percentage of NCDs Correct Answer - in the US,
NCDs account for 87% of all deaths
In China, NCDs account for 83% of all deaths
What are cardiovascular diseases? Correct Answer - -diseases
of the heart
-vascular diseases of the brain
-diseases of the blood vessels
CVDs responsible for over Correct Answer - 17.3 million
deaths per year (30% of all deaths)
Distribution of CVDs between males and females Correct Answer
- larger percentage of males have ischaemic heart diseases than
females
Larger percentage of females have cerebrovascular diseases
Mortality rates of CVDs in high income and low income countries
Correct Answer - low income countries have lower rates of
mortality due to CVDs
Ranking of 10 selected risk factors of cause of death Correct
Answer - -raised blood pressure
-tobacco
-high blood glucose
What is a neoplasm? Correct Answer - autonomous growth of
tissue and in general, irreversible
Invasion vs metastasis? Correct Answer - invasion (spread of
the neoplasms into adjacent structures)