PSY-3635 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gestational Diabetes, Paresthesia, Cognitive Development
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Study guide to readings for final exam health psychology. Inner city poverty and hopelessness: food deserts, concentrated poverty, effects of reliance on cars, pollution included emitted chemicals and particulates, associated with asthma, cancer, heart disease, automobile fatalities, pedestrian and bicycle fatalities. Often occurs at night or in early morning: attacks, cells in your air tubes make more mucus than normal. It tends to clog up the tubes: the air tubes tend to swell or become inflamed, the muscles in your air tubes tighten or spasm, these changes cause the air tubes to narrow. This makes it hard to breathe: the narrowed, swollen, and mucous clogged tubes cause the symptoms of asthma, asthma attacks may start suddenly. Or they may take a long time, even days, to develop. Environmental events that stimulate inflammation, mucous secretion, or bronchospasms: these differ from one person to another, one of the goals of asthma management is to identify, remove, and/or avoid triggers.