You may go through a good portion of your life blissfully unaware of a developing or underlying
Question:
You may go through a good portion of your life blissfully unaware of a developing or underlying medical condition. Many diseases are preventable with a healthy lifestyle and many fare better with early detection. Learning your risks and screening yourself regularly for common conditions may extend your life, or at the least, make you aware of factors that affect your wellbeing. In this lab we will use several health screening tools to assess your personal risk factors for disease.
You may complete the following in any order.
Resting Heart Rate (2 minutes)
Take your resting heart rate upon waking. You may want to do this over a few days to see if there is variation; use the lowest heart rate measured. Use the following chart to rate your resting heart rate.
Risk Assessment for Diabetes (10-15 minutes)
Calculate your risk for pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes using this online tool. Scroll down the page and click on the green button ‘Want to Know more? Start’ to start the assessment. Take note of your final score.
https://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/en/canriskPage Break
Examine yourself for melanoma (10 minutes)
Read the instructions carefully and do a thorough self-examination looking for warning signs of skin cancer.
https://www.skincancer.org/early-detection/self-exams/
Perform a self-exam for breast/testicular cancer (10 minutes)
Women: visit this site and follow the instructions to perform a breast self-exam.
https://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/testing/types/self_exam
Men: visit this site and follow the instructions to perform a testicular self-exam.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/testicular-cancer/how-to-perform-a-testicular-selfexam-advice-from-urologist-philip-pierorazio
PART 2 | Reflect on your screening results.
After completing the health screening assessments, answer the following questions:
Other than taking your resting heart rate for the Cardiovascular Lab, have you used any of these assessment tools or self-exams in the past?
What were your scores for B. (risk assessment for diabetes) Number and rating?
Were you surprised by any of your results?
How will these tests inform your future health? Do you plan to do regular assessments/self-exams?
Chemistry The Central Science
ISBN: 978-0321696724
12th edition
Authors: Theodore Brown, Eugene LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward