Heart attacks have sometimes been called a disease of modern civilization because their incidence is much higher in affluent, more-developed societies than in poorer, less-developed ones. Why should this be so?

The formed elements of blood include (select all that apply):

a. plasma.

b. white blood cells.

c. fibrinogen.

d. red blood cells.

e. platelets.

What transports oxygen within the blood?

a. LDLs in plasma

b. albumin in plasma

c. HDLs in plasma

d. enzymes in platelets

e. hemoglobin in red blood cells

The arteries in the body that carry deoxygenated blood are:

a. arterioles.

b. pulmonary arteries.

c. coronary arteries.

d. systemic arteries.

e. all small arteries.

A heart attack can best be described as:

a. a sudden, harmful contraction of the heart muscles.

b. an invasion of heart tissue by pathogens such as bacteria.

c. a death of cells in the heart brought about by blockage of a coronary artery.

d. a failure of the nervous system to bring about heart contractions.

e. a rapid, harmful expansion of blood volume supplied by the heart.

Blood returns to the heart (select all that apply):

a. through capillaries feeding into venules.

b. through venules feeding into arteries.

c. by force of contractions of the heart’s left ventricle.

d. by force of contractions of the heart’s right ventricle.

e. by force of skeletal muscle contractions.

The two-way exchange of substances between blood cells and body cells occurs only along the length of the blood vessels called:

a. capillaries.

b. arteries.

c. arterioles.

d. veins.

e. venules.

The small size of alveoli, coupled with their large numbers, provide the lungs with what critical quality for gas exchange?

a. a resistance to damage caused by pollutants

b. an affinity for oxygen and lack of affinity for carbon dioxide

c. an affinity for carbon dioxide and lack of affinity for oxygen

d. a large surface area

e. a small surface area

The movement of oxygen into the interstitial fluid from capillaries, and the movement of carbon dioxide into capillaries from the interstitial fluid is driven by:

a. ventilation.

b. hemoglobin binding.

c. the pumping of them.

d. osmotic gradients.

e. concentration gradients.

Vaccines elicit _________ on the part of the immune system by introducing ______ from a pathogenic microbe without introducing the microbe itself.

The immune system can cause trouble in three primary ways: by initiating attacks on the body’s own tissues, thus causing the conditions known as _______; by initiating the histamine-releasing overreactions known as ________; and by serving as the primary impediment to ________.