Non-communicable lifestyle diseases

What is the difference between a communicable disease and a noncommunicable disease?

• A communicable disease can be passed from person to person, a noncommunicable disease cannot.

• A communicable disease cannot be passed from person to person, while a noncommunicable disease can be.

• Both types of disease can be passed from person to person, but communicable diseases require direct contact with bodily fluids.

Anything that increases the chance that a person will develop a certain disease during a lifetime is called ____.

• Environmental factors

• Risk factors

• Different factors

Cardiovascular Disease is a

• infectious disease

• disease of the heart and blood vessels

• growth of abnormal cells

Which of the following is not a lifestyle disease?

• cardiovascular disease

• cancer

• measles

A healthy lifestyle can prevent diseases

• True

• False