Select the TRUE statement(s) about respiratory diseases. (Select all that apply.)
a. Severe mountain sickness can cause pulmonary edema.
b. Smoking often damages alveolar walls, making oxygen delivery difficult or impossible.
c. At high altitudes, humans adapt by enlarging the lungs and increasing the number of alveoli.
d. Severe mountain sickness causes pulmonary edema due to high pressures in the pulmonary artery, induced by hypoxia and the sympathetic nervous system.
Answer:
a. Severe mountain sickness can cause pulmonary edema.
b. Smoking often damages alveolar walls, making oxygen delivery difficult or impossible.
d. Severe mountain sickness causes pulmonary edema due to high pressures in the pulmonary artery, induced by hypoxia and the sympathetic nervous system.
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