Test Your Health I.Q.

Heart Disease: Quiz Answers 

1. Heart disease kills more Americans than the next seven causes of death combined.

a. True
b. False

Answer: a. True

2. The death rate from heart disease is even higher in North Carolina than the nation.

a. True
b. False

Answer: a. True

3. Out of every four North Carolinians, how many have some form of cardiovascular disease (CVD)?

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

Answer: a. 1

4. North Carolina earned the following ranking in 2001 of states having the highest CVD rates in the country.

a. 45th in the country
b. 37th in the country
c. 20th in the country
d. 17th in the country

Answer: d. 17th in the country

5. Which of the following diseases is the leading cause of death in North Carolina?

a. Leukemia
b. Breast cancer
c. Cardiovascular disease
d. Stroke

Answer: c. Cardiovascular disease

6. In a group of 100 people, about how many North Carolinians are obese or overweight?

a. 5
b. 10
c. 45
d. 60

Answer: d. 60

7. Which of the following contributes to heart disease?

a. Smoking
b. Diabetes
c. No exercise
d. Poor diet
e. All of the above

Answer: e. All of the above

8. What is the number 1 cause of death in women in the U.S.?

a. Diabetes
b. Breast cancer
c. Heart disease
d. Cervical cancer

Answer: c. Heart disease

9. According to a 2005 National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute report, what percentage of people in the U.S. who have a heart attack die?

a. 5
b. 10
c. 20
d. 50

Answer: d. 50

10. All heart attacks are extremely painful. You always know when you’re having a heart attack.

a. True
b. False

Answer: b. False