Points to Remember

Health and Diseases (Science)

Points to Remember

·                 Use of certain drugs by an individual as a regular habit. This is called drug addiction or drug abuse.

·                 Tobacco is used for smoking, chewing and snuffing. Inhaling tobacco smoke is called smoking.

·                 The dependence of alcohol is called alcoholism and the addict is termed as alcoholic.

·                 Prolonged use of alcohol depresses the nervous system, by acting as a sedative and analgesic substance and causes fatty liver (cirrhosis).

·                 Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder. It is characterised by increased blood glucose level due to insufficient, deficient or failure of insulin secretion and insulin resistance.

·                 Obesity is the state in which there is an accumulation of excess body fat with an abnormal increase in body weight.

·                 Coronary heart disease is the most common form and is caused by deposition of cholesterol in the blood vessels.

·                 Cancer is an abnormal and uncontrolled division of cells that invade and destroy surrounding tissue forming a tumor or neoplasm.

·                 AIDS is caused by Human immunodeficiency virus.