(SOLVED) The nurse is discussing risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) with a group of student nurses. Which would the nurse identify as modifiable risk factors?

1. The nurse is discussing risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) with a group of student nurses. Which would the nurse identify as modifiable risk factors? (select all that apply)

a. Hypertension

b. Family history

c. Advancing age

d. Tobacco use

e. Metabolic Syndrome

f. Sedentary lifestyle

2. The nursing instructor will correct misinformation when the nursing student states which answer?

a. Tracheobronchial circulation provides blood to the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles.

b. Pulmonary circulation provides blood to the alveoli and acini.

c. Long-term hypoxia causes exercise intolerance, general fatigue, and clubbing of the fingers.

d. Secretory cells are produced in the alveoli to destroy macrophages.

3. A nurse is explaining coronary artery disease to a patient. Which does the nurse describe as the process that occurs to help prevent sudden cardiac death?

a. When there is spasm of the coronary artery, the artery narrows which can diminish blood supply to the heart and this process occurs at rest.

b. When the demand for oxygen to the heart increases, blood flow through the coronary arteries needs to increase, but cannot because of a blockage or narrowing.

c. As a person ages, the small, normally closed arteries connect and start to carry blood to parts of the heart when a coronary artery is narrowed and serve as an alternate route of blood supply.

d. Despite the fact that there is narrowing of the vessels carrying blood and oxygen to the heart, the pain or discomfort felt can occur in other areas of the body.