The effect of lifestyle on some non-communicable diseases

Biology (Separate Science) · GCSE · AQA · AQA GCSE Biology - Foundation (8461) · Specification point · 4.2.2.6 · Organisation · Animal tissues, organs and organ systems

Lung disease risk-factor data

Risk factors and multifactorial disease

Costs of non-communicable disease

Sampling in risk-factor studies

Presenting and interpreting risk-factor data

Reducing coronary heart disease risk

Lifestyle and genetic cancer risk

Smoking and cardiovascular disease

Obesity and Type 2 diabetes risk

Alcohol and liver disease

Alcohol and brain function

Smoking and non-cancerous lung disease

Smoking during pregnancy

Alcohol during pregnancy

Carcinogens and cancer risk

Correlation on scatter diagrams

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4.2.2.6 The effect of lifestyle on some non-communicable diseases

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$Students should be able to: discuss the human and financial cost of these non-communicable diseases to an individual, a local community, a nation or globally explain the effect of lifestyle factors including diet, alcohol and smoking on the incidence of non-communicable diseases at local, national and global levels.$	$WS 1.4$
$Risk factors are linked to an increased rate of a disease. They can be: aspects of a person’s lifestyle substances in the person’s body or environment. A causal mechanism has been proven for some risk factors, but not in others. The effects of diet, smoking and exercise on cardiovascular disease. Obesity as a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes. The effect of alcohol on the liver and brain function. The effect of smoking on lung disease and lung cancer. The effects of smoking and alcohol on unborn babies. Carcinogens, including ionising radiation, as risk factors in cancer. Many diseases are caused by the interaction of a number of factors.$

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Key opportunities for skills development

Students should be able to: discuss the human and financial cost of these non-communicable diseases to an individual, a local community, a nation or globally explain the effect of lifestyle factors including diet, alcohol and smoking on the incidence of non-communicable diseases at local, national and global levels.

WS 1.4

Risk factors are linked to an increased rate of a disease. They can be: aspects of a person’s lifestyle substances in the person’s body or environment. A causal mechanism has been proven for some risk factors, but not in others. The effects of diet, smoking and exercise on cardiovascular disease. Obesity as a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes. The effect of alcohol on the liver and brain function. The effect of smoking on lung disease and lung cancer. The effects of smoking and alcohol on unborn babies. Carcinogens, including ionising radiation, as risk factors in cancer. Many diseases are caused by the interaction of a number of factors.

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