My Well Done Chronic Disease Padlet by Jabril AbdulJalil

The concept of Chronic Disease

25jabduljalil — 2025-02-24 16:14:20 UTC

Chronic Disease, to most, is a health condition which affects people for usually about 3 months or longer and has the chance of becoming worse. Most times it occurs within older aged adults, which may be influenced by their diets in their younger years.

The Various Common Chronic Diseases

25jabduljalil — 2025-02-25 16:23:54 UTC

The most common chronic diseases that most people may suffer from in their older years or throughout their life is usually Heart Disease (which strikes the heart with is menacing feel), Stroke (which strikes your brain with no blood flow), Lung cancer (A cancer caused by the damage of lung DNA), Arthritis (makes your bone joints feel pain), Type 2 diabetes (the body doesn't really process sugar well), Colorectal Cancer (stuff like blood in your stool, pain in your abdomen, etc)

The Modifiable and Non-Modifiable Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases

25jabduljalil — 2025-02-25 16:23:56 UTC

Most common risk factors that are modifiable include Tobacco use, Physical inactivity (like no exercise or not touching grass), Poor nutritional choices (which we've discussed before), alcohol use, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, an overall health (most things at least). The most common risk factors that are non-modifiable include Increasing Age, Genetics, Sex (the gender kind), Family health history (which is in line with Genetics).

Diagram of the relationship between Chronic Disease and it's corresponding Risk Factors

25jabduljalil — 2025-02-25 16:24:01 UTC

Which is very Visible