Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam

Age, gender, race, immune system, genetic factors

Chest pain due to an imbalance between oxygen supply and demand.

Small airway obstruction, progressive airway inflammation, increased airway responsiveness from stimuli.
Symptoms include: wheezing, dyspnea, and coughing.

Fever >101 degrees F
Increase in WBC (> 12,000)

An enlargement of the prostrate of a male as he ages.

A depressive psychosis, alternating between excessive phases of mania and depression.
-Mania may be characterized by an increased need for sleep, distractibility, elevated or irritable mood, excessive involvement in pleasurable activities with a potential for painful consequences, grandiose ideas, increase in activity, pressure to keep talking,and racing thoughts.

A condition in which the lungs' defense mechanisms have been destroyed by cig. smoke, dusts, fumes, pollution, or bacterial infection.
-Characterized by a cough that produces a purulent, green, or blood-soaked sputum.

A condition in which the heart is unable to meet the metabolic needs of the tissues. It pumps less blood than it receives.

Occurs during the 2nd and 3rd trimester of pregnancy. Treated with exercise, diet, and insulin.

An individual's body is unable to produce insulin, and therefore he becomes insulin-dependent.

A condition that occurs in adults who have an impaired insulin secretion or who are often insulin resistant.
-Treatment includes weight reduction through diet and exercise.

Diabetes with onset caused by taking various medications, such as oral contraceptives, beta-blockers, diuretics, calcium channel blockers, glucocorticoids, and phenytoin.

Aspirin, antiimflammatory agents, corticosteroids, potassium chloride, methotrexate, and iron.

The destruction of alveoli, walls, or air sacs of the lungs, resulting in an obstruction of the airflow on expiration.

Abnormal electrical discharges in the cerebral cortex that may result in recurring paroxysmal seizures.