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How does HIV/AIDS influence the affect of diseases that would have only a small affect on a healthy person? |
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HIV/AIDS decreases a person's immunity, therefore causing diseases with a normally small affect to have a large affect, even resulting in death |
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How many of the ten leading causes of death are related to diet? |
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Give 2 examples of modifiable risk factors |
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- diabetes
- obesity
- atherogenic diet
- high blood LDL cholesterol
- high blood HDL cholesterol
- hypertension
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Which is not a recommendation for reducing CHD risk? a. cholesterol screenings b. salt tablets c. increased physical activity |
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