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HPEX 353 Exam 1 questions n correctanswers
Iatrogenic - correct answer ✔✔A disease caused by medical treatment (i.e anemia caused by
chemotherapy)
Nosocomial - correct answer ✔✔Disease acquired in a hospital setting/ facility
Sequela - correct answer ✔✔A pathological condition that results from prior disease/injury (i.e Shingles
from Chicken Pox)
Name 5 predisposing factors - correct answer ✔✔Hereditary, Age, Gender, Environment, and Lifestyle
How is age a predisposing factor? - correct answer ✔✔Physiological changes occur during the aging
process that can cause issues with temperature regulation, immunity, and tolerance to physical activity
How is gender a predisposing factor? - correct answer ✔✔An individual's gender increases susceptibility
to certain disease like Prostate/ Ovarian cancers
How is lifestyle a predisposing factor? - correct answer ✔✔Family environment, education, and habits
can increase susceptibility to opportunistic diseases like obesity
How is environment a predisposing factor? - correct answer ✔✔Things such as air quality can effect lung
health, along with other environmental factors effecting other areas of health
Hereditary - correct answer ✔✔A predisposing factor inherited from a parent
It is not easily controlled, changed or altered
, They do not always appear at birth (i.e. CF)
Single Gene/ Monogenic/ Mendelian Disorders - correct answer ✔✔Recessive, Dominant, Sex-linked
Autosomal Dominant - correct answer ✔✔Only one abnormal gene from a parent
50% chance of child inheriting the defect
Huntington's Disease, Retinoblastoma
Autosomal Recessive - correct answer ✔✔Two copies (both parents)
50% chance of being a carrier, 25% chance of not being a carrier or contracting the disease, 25% of
inheriting disease
CF, Tay-Sachs, Sickle Cell Anemia
X-linked (sex-linked) - correct answer ✔✔Single abnormal gene on the X chromosome
Two types: Dominant and Recessive
Rickets (Dominant), Hemophilia (Recessive)
Chromosomal Disorders - correct answer ✔✔Caused by chromosomal abnormalities due to addition,
deletion or translocation
Klinefelter syndrome (addition), Turner Syndrome (Deletion), Trisomy 21/ Down syndrome
(translocation)
Multifactorial Disorders - correct answer ✔✔results from many factors
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