GEOG 2HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Esophagus, Insulin Resistance, Peripheral Artery Disease
17 Dec 2013
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Individual level changes: diet, physical activity, sedentary work (sitting work) Population level changes: developments in energy-intensive technologies for food production , processing, transport, and storage, year-round supply of foods, increasing levels of urbanization. These bases of the disease of affluence often come together. Cardiovascular diseases: include heart attacks, hypertension, congential heart disease, and heart failure among others. H. d. is the leading cause of death for both women and men in the. The major causes of cardiovascular disease are tobacco. Us use, physical inactivity, and an unhealthy diet. Globally, cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death and are projected to remain so: an estimated 17. 5 million people died from cardiovascular disease in 2005, representing. Of these deaths, 7. 6 million were due to heart attacks. Crude death rates highest in whites and blacks. There are also geographical differences with mississippi (the highest state) having twice the rate as minnesota (the lowest)
