Test Your Health I. Q.

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Women's Health: Questions:

1. In a North Carolina high school with 100 junior and senior girls, how many girls under the age of 18 will get pregnant?

A. About 1

B. About 4

C. About 10

D. About 50

2. North Carolina has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the nation.

A. True

B. False

3. What percentage of women diagnosed with AIDS in North Carolina is black?

A. 20%

B. 30%

C. 55%

D. 63%

4. In a group of 100 North Carolina women over the age of 18, on average what number of women have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and are obese?

A. 25-35

B. 10-15

C. 5-10

D. 1-4

5. What percentage of women 18 and over in North Carolina have diabetes?

A. 1%

B. 5%

C. 8%

D. 15%

6. What measures can women 65 and over do to prevent illnesses?

A. Get a pneumonia shot

B. Get a measles shot

C. All of the above

7. Women over the age of 50 should have a mammogram every 10 years.

A. True

B. False 

8. What is a sigmoidoscopy?

A. In this procedure, often used to detect cancer, a doctor passes a lighted scope through the anus to view the lining of the large intestine's terminal portions, known as the sigmoid colon and rectum.

B. The same as a colonoscopy.

9. Most women in North Carolina have health insurance.

A. True

B. False

10. Are women in North Carolina more likely to die from homicide or motor vehicle accidents?

A. Motor vehicle accidents

B. Homicide

Based on the NC Women's Health Report Card