lifestyle diseases
Habits cause these
Lifestyle diseases are health conditions caused primarily by daily habits rather than infections or genetics—things like diet, exercise, smoking, and alcohol consumption.
Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and certain cancers fall into this category.
The term emphasizes that these conditions are largely preventable through behavioral changes: Lifestyle diseases account for most deaths in developed countries.
- obesityExcess body fat condition
- couch potatoHabitual sedentary TV watcher
- diabetesMetabolic disorder affecting glucose
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
- silent killerAsymptomatic lethal condition
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Pathogen-caused transmissible conditions
communicable diseases · hereditary diseases · inherited disorders · contagious diseases · congenital disorders
lifestyle diseasesgenetic disorders
Conditions caused by mutations
hereditary conditions · age-related diseases · degenerative diseases · developmental disorders
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