PSY BEH 102C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vascular Resistance, Etiology, Psych
1 Apr 2017
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Treatments shown in the readings can apply to many other chronic conditions. Diseases change the physiology and organs of a person: structural changes to the heart when they have cv disease. Depending where you are in your life stage: knowing hypertension runs in your family can cause you to take certain behaviors to prevent this. Traits + behaviors + stress contribute to diseases. Obesity, smoking, sedentary: etiological factor trigger. Preclinical disease process and manifest disease: prognostic factors. High blood pressure: the vessels start to stiffen and have an increase in resistance for the heart, due to a tonic constriction of the arterial system. Blood pressure driving force for blood flow is pressure created by ventricular contraction elastic arterial walls expand and recoil continuous blood flow arterial system is elastic when person is healthy. Hypertension higher in men than in women. Most in african americans: asian lowest.
