front 1 Asthma | back 1 Asthma is a condition in which your airways narrow and swell and may produce extra mucus. |
front 2 Cancer | back 2 A term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade nearby tissues. |
front 3 Diabetes | back 3 Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high. |
front 4 Environmental Factors | back 4 Environmental factors, as related to genetics, refers to exposures to substances (such as pesticides or industrial waste) where we live or work, behaviors (such as smoking or poor diet) that can increase an individual's risk of disease or stressful situations (such as racism). |
front 5 Family Health History | back 5 Family health history is a record of the diseases and health conditions in your family |
front 6 Family Tree | back 6 A family tree is a chart that shows all the people in a family over many generations and their relationship to one another |
front 7 Gene | back 7 The basic unit of heredity passed from parent to child. |
front 8 Genealogy | back 8 a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. |
front 9 Genetics | back 9 Genetics is the study of how genes and how traits are passed down from one generation to the next. |
front 10 Heart Disease | back 10 A type of disease that affects the heart or blood vessels. |
front 11 High Cholesterol | back 11 High cholesterol is when you have too much of a fatty substance called cholesterol in your blood |
front 12 Heredity | back 12 he sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics are transmitted from parents to their offspring. |
front 13 Hypertension | back 13 when the pressure in your blood vessels is too high (140/90 mmHg or higher). |
front 14 Medical History | back 14 A record of information about a person's health. |
front 15 Risk factor for disease | back 15
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front 16 Obesity | back 16 Obesity means having too much body fat |
front 17 Osteoporosis | back 17 Osteoporosis is a bone disease that develops when bone mineral density and bone mass decreases, or when the structure and strength of bone changes |
front 18 Predisposition | back 18 the state of being likely to behave in a particular way or to suffer from a particular disease |
front 19 Preventive Care | back 19 Preventive and routine care is care that helps prevent health problems or finds them before they become serious |
front 20 Stroke | back 20 A stroke, sometimes called a brain attack, occurs when something blocks blood supply to part of the brain or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts |