GERON255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heredity, Cell Nucleus, Cholesterol

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Gerontology
• Course: GERON255
• Professor: Cheryl Duxbury

Document Summary

5 years vs. 35 years for the insidious incremental course (straight line) The solution to chronic diseases is to postpone the disease or prevent (cid:1) (cid:1) them = cure (cid:1) the risk factors, this will help devise a plan to slow a progression (cid:1) (cid:1) We will never be able to cure chronic diseases, but we have to know. How: slow the rate (slope) at which disease develops, this will help slow rate to help never cross over the threshold into symptomatic phase, disease is still present, strategy: Compress them into later years of life (compression of infirmity) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Lifestyles: lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol abuse, obesity, stress, heredity, nutrition, environmental toxins. Compression of infirmity (morbidity) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Done through the modification of risk factors associated with chronic diseases and medical technology: 1. Preventing some of the symptoms of chronic diseases.