KINESIOL 4SS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Amenorrhoea, Menarche, Peripheral Neuropathy
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Relaionships between physical acivity and disease in the elderly: cardiovascular system. Exercise and pa can serve many roles in the primary, secondary, teriary and quaternary prevenion of disease. Primary prevenion: measure to prevent or avoid development of disease, e. g. in osteoporosis would be opimizing pa and nutriion in early life to opimize skeletal mass at maturity. Secondary prevenion: measures to prevent clinical manifestaion of disease in someone already diagnosed, e. g. high blood cholesterol, any measures now to prevent a heart atack (exercise, nutriion, drugs) Teriary prevenion: measures aimed at prevening recurrence of disease, e. g. those who have had an mi and are exercising to prevent another one. Arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) vs. atherosclerosis (arteriosclerosis plus atheroma faty deposits inside muscles) Consequences of atherosclerosis in coronary blood vessels include: angia pectoris (chest pain when you have coronary artery disease, heart is starving of o2.