Across
- 1. surgical repair or unblocking of a blood vessel, especially a coronary artery.
- 5. when the pressure in your blood vessels is too high
- 7. your body doesn't make enough insulin or can't use it as well as it should.
- 11. occurs when something blocks blood supply to part of the brain or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts.
- 12. 1 diabetes a chronic condition. In this condition, the pancreas makes little or no insulin.
- 14. disorders structural or functional anomalies that occur during intrauterine life.
- 15. (of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.
- 16. the thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, occurring typically in old age.
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- 2. a hormone produced in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans, which regulates the amount of glucose in the blood.
- 3. 2 diabetes happens because of a problem in the way the body regulates and uses sugar as a fuel.
- 4. heredity, the sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics are transmitted from parents to their offspring.
- 6. diseases that are not spread through infection or through other people, but are typically caused by unhealthy behaviours.
- 8. thickening or hardening of the arteries caused by a buildup of plaque in the inner lining of an artery.
- 9. painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
- 10. diseases A disorder characterized by the progressive loss of function and/or structure of the affected tissues.
- 13. attack happens when the flow of blood that brings oxygen to a part of your heart muscle suddenly becomes blocked.
- 15. diseases conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both.