The nurse is instructing a client about risk factors for disease and illness. Which factors should the nurse instruct that affect the risk for disease and cannot be changed?
1. Age and gender
2. Age and lifestyle
3. Gender and geographic area
4. Race and the environment
Answer: 1
1. Age and gender both pose risk factors that cannot be altered.
2. Lifestyle can pose risk factors, but the client can alter these risk factors.
3. The client can change a geographic location.
4. The client cannot alter race, but can change the environment.
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