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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of noncommunicable disease deaths. Some common noncommunicable cardiovascular conditions and diseases include: heart attack. stroke. coronary artery ...
Types of direct contact include the following. 1. Person-to-person contact. Infectious diseases are commonly transmitted through direct person-to-person contact. Transmission occurs when a person ...
Some illnesses, like the flu and measles, can spread through both the air and direct contact. When you are infected and cough, sneeze, or talk, you release some viruses into the air. People near ...
Impact of Non-Communicable Disease on Your Health. Cardiovascular diseases. These conditions affect your blood vessels and heart. They include coronary heart disease, heart attack, and stroke ...
A non-communicable disease ( NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another. NCDs include Parkinson's disease, autoimmune diseases, strokes, heart diseases, cancers, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, cataracts, and others. NCDs may be chronic or acute.
Diseases and disorders VACTERL-H Vertebral abnormalities, Anal atresia, Cardiac defects, Tracheoesophageal fistula, Esophageal atresia, Renal and radial abnormalities, Limb abnormalities with Hydrocephalus VAED Vaccine-associated enhanced disease VCFS Velo cardio facial syndrome: vCJD variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: VD Venereal disease: VHF
Contagious disease. A contagious disease is an infectious disease that is readily spread (that is, communicated) by transmission of a pathogen through contact (direct or indirect) with an infected person. [1] A disease is often known to be contagious before medical science discovers its causative agent. Koch's postulates, which were published ...
Lifestyle diseases can be defined as the diseases linked to the manner in which a person lives their life. These diseases are non-communicable, and can be caused by lack of physical activity, unhealthy eating, alcohol, substance use disorders and smoking tobacco, which can lead to heart disease, stroke, obesity, type II diabetes and lung cancer ...