4.2.2.6 the effect of lifestyle on non-communicable diseases

• What are risk factors linked to?

  An increased rate of a disease
• what can risk factors be?

  
  

  • Aspects of a person’s lifestyle
  • substances in the person’s body or environment
• what has been proven for some risk factors?

  a casual mechanism
• what has an effect of cardiovascular disease?

  diet, smoking and exercise
• what is a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes?

  obesity
• what can alcohol effect?

  the liver and brain function
• what is the effect of smoking?

  on lung disease and lung cancer
• what caused brain damage in babies?

  excessive alcohol consumption during pregnancy
• what are risk factors of cancer?

  carcinogens - including ionising radiation