Chronic+Diseases


 * The Chronic Disease Unit identifies the warning signs and risk factors for heart disease, cancer, arthritis, and diabetes. Students will also learn the correlation between lifestyle choices and impact it has on their long term overall health.**

CHRONIC DISEASE UNIT OBJECTIVES:

1. Define cancer, its progression, warning signs, and possible treatments 2. Knowledge of how to do self exams for breast, testicular, and skin cancer 3. Define heart disease, its progression, warning signs, and possible lifestyle choices for prevention 4. Identify a variety of inflammatory disorders classified as arthritis. Also, be able to identify possible treatments of arthritis 5. Define the two types of diabetes and possible lifestyle choices for prevention

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