Lifestyle risk factors
What Lifestyle risk factors means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Factors such as smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, obesity, poor diet, lack of exercise, and overexposure to ultraviolet radiation that increase the chance of DNA changes.
Aspects of a person's lifestyle, such as poor diet, smoking, lack of exercise and excessive alcohol intake, that increase the rate of non-communicable diseases.
Topics that use Lifestyle risk factors
- Cancer (AQA GCSE)
- The effect of lifestyle on some non-communicable diseases (AQA GCSE)
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