Discuss how an inactive lifestyle increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Identify the arteries labelled X and Y on the diagram.

have higher risk of having high blood pressure ✔

higher risk of having type II diabetes ✔

atherosclerosis ✔

higher risk of high blood cholesterol because they aren’t burning fats ✔

by carrying extra weight/being obese which puts greater stress on the cardiovascular system to do the same job as someone not overweight ✔

there is a greater chance of comorbidity of factors occurring ✔

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X= right coronary artery ✔

Y= left anterior descending artery ✔

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Answered well, but some students focused on obesity aspects over the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease.

This was a very difficult question for all but a few students. Most students did not know the cardiac arteries.