risk factors for non communicable diseases

• risk factors when discussing disease:

  • Something that increases the chance of developing a disease 
• Which diseases is obesity a risk factor for:

  • Diabetes 
  • heart attacks
• risk factors for lung cancer:

  • smoking
  • air pollution
• bronchitis:

  • Inflammation of airways in the lungs
•  In people with emphysema, the alveoli are damaged