One advantage of health-risk appraisal instruments is that they:
a. Are suitable for all age-groups
b. Accurately reflect an individual's ability to initiate changes in lifestyle
c. Provide support to nurses in counseling individuals about self-care behaviors
d. Emphasize environmental factors
C
Health-risk appraisal instruments provide support to nurses in counseling and educating individ-uals in self-care behaviors.
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1. Elevated VLDL, triglycerides, and cholesterol; glucose intolerance 2. Elevated chylomicrons, normal cholesterol, triglycerides more than three times normal 3. Elevated LDL, VLDL, total cholesterol, chylomicrons; triglycerides more than three times normal 4. Elevated LDL and total cholesterol, normal VLDL and triglycerides
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