2. Atherosclerosis Is A
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26%
a) Inflammatory Disease
46%
b) Degenerative Disease
1%
c) Autoimmune Disease
28%
d) None Of The Above
3. The Most Important Risk Factor For Atherosclerosis In Patients Under 45 Years Is:
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10%
a) Male Sex
19%
b) Smoking
4%
c) Lack Of Physical Exercise
67%
d) Hyperlipidaemia
4. Atherosclerosis Is Characterised By All Except:
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85%
a) Affects Arteries And Veins
3%
b) Thrombosis Is The Most Important Complication
3%
c) A Very Common Disease
9%
d) Hypertension Is A Major Risk Factor
1%
e) Lipid Accumulates In The Vessel Wall
5. The Following Does Not Predispose To Atherosclerosis:
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0%
a) Hypertension
3%
b) Diabetes Mellitus
93%
c) Rheumatic Heart Disease
0%
d) High Fat Diet
3%
e) Smoking
6. Pathological Features Of Atherosclerosis Include All Except:
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1%
a) Fatty Streaks
0%
b) Atheromatous Plaques
71%
c) Hyaline Thickening Of The Arterial Wall
4%
d) Thrombus Formation
23%
e) Calcification
7. Intimal Thickening In Atherosclerosis Is Due To:
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28%
a) Accumulation Of Lipids
4%
b) Smooth Muscle Proliferation
0%
c) Fibrous Tissue Formation
68%
d) All Of The Above
8. The Presence Of Many Foamy Macrophages In The Arterial Wall Is Characteristic Of:
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3%
a) Syphilitic Arteritis
5%
b) Hypertension
83%
c) Atherosclerosis
9%
d) All Of The Above
0%
e) None Of The Above
9. The Most Important Complication Of Atherosclerosis Is:
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85%
a) Thrombus Formation
4%
b) Dystrophic Calcification
1%
c) Haemorrhage
3%
d) Ulceration
8%
e) Aneurysmal Dilation
1) Hypertension affects:
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2%
a) Large arteries
2%
b) Medium-sized arteries
14%
c) Small arteries and arterioles
80%
d) All of the above
1%
e) None of the above
2) The commonest cause of secondary hypertension is:
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95%
a. Renal diseases
1%
b. Liver diseases
0%
c. Cerebral diseases
0%
d. Blood diseases
3%
e. Cardiac diseases
3) In benign hypertension, the arterial wall shows the following pathological changes EXCEPT:
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12%
a. Fibrosis
2%
b. Elastosis
6%
c. Hyalinosis
76%
d. Necrosis
4%
e. Thickening
4) In malignant hypertension, the arterioles do NOT show:
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3%
a. Fibrinoid necrosis
12%
b. Endotheliosis
79%
C. Elastosis
1%
d. Thickening of the wall
5%
e. Narrowing of the lumen
5) Arteriolosclerosis occurs in:
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23%
a. Benign essential hypertension
11%
b. Malignant essential hypertension
6%
c. Atherosclerosis
57%
d. All of the above
4%
e. None of the above
6) The most common cause of death in malignant hypertension is:
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85%
a. Renal failure
9%
b. Cerebral haemorrhage
4%
c. Congestive heart failure
3%
d. Coronary insufficiency
0%
e. Respiratory failure
7) Medial calcification of arteries is seen in
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92%
a) Monckberg calcification
5%
b) Atherosclerosis
0%
c) Peusdoxanthoma elasticum
3%
d) Idiopathic calcification of infancy
8) Atherosclerosis is predominantly disease of
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86%
a) Intima
9%
b) Media
0%
c) Adventitia
5%
d) Entire vessel wall
9) The following lipids has high association with atherosclerosis
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1%
a) Triglyceride
98%
b) Low density lipoprotein
0%
c) High density lipoprotein
1%
d) Very low-density lipoprotein
10) Systemic hypertension leads to
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51%
a) Left ventricular hypertrophy
1%
b) Increased incidence of infective endocarditis
41%
c) Both
6%
d) Neither
11) Hypertension is characterized by which one of the following:
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3%
a) aortic stenosis
3%
b) pancarditis
78%
c) left ventricular hypertrophy
0%
d) valvular vegetation
17%
e) coarctation of aorta