KNH 188 LATEST 2026 PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Fasting blood sugar test: - ✔✔- Less than 100 mg/dl is normal
- From 100 to 125 mg/dl is considered prediabetes
- 126 mg/dl or higher on two separate tests is diabetes
✔✔Oral glucose tolerance test: - ✔✔- For this test, you fast overnight and the fasting
blood sugar level is measured. Then you drink a sugary liquid and blood sugar levels
are tested periodically for the next two hours
- Less than 140 mg/dl is normal
- More than 200 mg/dl after two hours indicates diabetes
✔✔Life expectancy: - ✔✔- Life expectancy is an estimate of how many years a person
might be expected to live
- Healthy life expectancy is an estimate of how many years they might live in a healthy
state
✔✔Healthcare spending: - ✔✔The US spends more on healthcare than any other
nation in the world
✔✔Leading causes of US deaths in 1900: - ✔✔- Pneumonia and influenza
- Tuberculosis
- Diarrhea, enteritis and ulceration of intestines
- Diseases of the heart
- Intracranial lesions of vascular origin
- Nephritis
- All accidents
- Cancer and other malignant tumors
- Senility
- Diphtheria
✔✔Leading causes of death in the US 2018 and 2019: - ✔✔- Heart disease
- Cancer
- Unintentional injuries
- Chronic lower respiratory disease
- Stroke
- Alzheimer disease
- Diabetes
- Kidney disease
- influenza and pneumonia
- Suicide
✔✔Leading causes of death 2021: - ✔✔- Heart disease
- Cancer
, - Covid 19
- Unintentional injuries
- Stroke
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases
- Diabetes
- Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
- Kidney disease
✔✔Leading causes of death 2022: - ✔✔- Heart disease
- Cancer
- Unintentional injury
- Covid 19
- Stroke
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases
- Diabetes
- Kidney disease
- Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
✔✔Disparity - ✔✔a noticeable or significant difference
✔✔Health disparity: - ✔✔when a health outcome is seen to a greater or lesser extent
between populations
✔✔We see disparities between people/groups with differing: - ✔✔- Race or ethnicity
- Sex
- Sexual identity
- Age
- Disability
- Socioeconomic status
- Geographic location
✔✔Social determinants of health - ✔✔are the conditions in the environment where
people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of
health, functioning and quality of life outcomes and risks
✔✔Grouped into 5 domains: - ✔✔- Educations access and quality
- Health care access and quality
- Neighborhood and built environment
- Social and community context
- Economic stability
✔✔What is the cardiovascular system? - ✔✔Cardio- heart, vascular=vessels
✔✔Main purpose of the cardiovascular system : - ✔✔- To deliver oxygen and nutrients
to the cells in the body
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Fasting blood sugar test: - ✔✔- Less than 100 mg/dl is normal
- From 100 to 125 mg/dl is considered prediabetes
- 126 mg/dl or higher on two separate tests is diabetes
✔✔Oral glucose tolerance test: - ✔✔- For this test, you fast overnight and the fasting
blood sugar level is measured. Then you drink a sugary liquid and blood sugar levels
are tested periodically for the next two hours
- Less than 140 mg/dl is normal
- More than 200 mg/dl after two hours indicates diabetes
✔✔Life expectancy: - ✔✔- Life expectancy is an estimate of how many years a person
might be expected to live
- Healthy life expectancy is an estimate of how many years they might live in a healthy
state
✔✔Healthcare spending: - ✔✔The US spends more on healthcare than any other
nation in the world
✔✔Leading causes of US deaths in 1900: - ✔✔- Pneumonia and influenza
- Tuberculosis
- Diarrhea, enteritis and ulceration of intestines
- Diseases of the heart
- Intracranial lesions of vascular origin
- Nephritis
- All accidents
- Cancer and other malignant tumors
- Senility
- Diphtheria
✔✔Leading causes of death in the US 2018 and 2019: - ✔✔- Heart disease
- Cancer
- Unintentional injuries
- Chronic lower respiratory disease
- Stroke
- Alzheimer disease
- Diabetes
- Kidney disease
- influenza and pneumonia
- Suicide
✔✔Leading causes of death 2021: - ✔✔- Heart disease
- Cancer
, - Covid 19
- Unintentional injuries
- Stroke
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases
- Diabetes
- Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
- Kidney disease
✔✔Leading causes of death 2022: - ✔✔- Heart disease
- Cancer
- Unintentional injury
- Covid 19
- Stroke
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases
- Diabetes
- Kidney disease
- Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
✔✔Disparity - ✔✔a noticeable or significant difference
✔✔Health disparity: - ✔✔when a health outcome is seen to a greater or lesser extent
between populations
✔✔We see disparities between people/groups with differing: - ✔✔- Race or ethnicity
- Sex
- Sexual identity
- Age
- Disability
- Socioeconomic status
- Geographic location
✔✔Social determinants of health - ✔✔are the conditions in the environment where
people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of
health, functioning and quality of life outcomes and risks
✔✔Grouped into 5 domains: - ✔✔- Educations access and quality
- Health care access and quality
- Neighborhood and built environment
- Social and community context
- Economic stability
✔✔What is the cardiovascular system? - ✔✔Cardio- heart, vascular=vessels
✔✔Main purpose of the cardiovascular system : - ✔✔- To deliver oxygen and nutrients
to the cells in the body
