Heart Disease The heart is described as a strong muscle about the size of your fist that pumps blood continuously through the circulatory system through a network of elastic type tubes throughout the body. It helps make up the cardiovascular system, which consists of arteries, capillaries, and veins. Over time the heart can develop many problems such as blocked arteries caused by a buildup of cells, fat, cholesterol. This build up is commonly known as plaque. These conditions eventually lead to
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Tiarra Ehret 6/27/2016 Heart Disease Exam Part One Your heart is an organ in your body that is a muscle, but it is the pump that supplies blood to your whole body. Heart disease is a term for any disorder that affects the heart. The name heart disease is also called an Umbrella term. In this umbrella term heart disease consists of coronary heart disease, heart attack, cardiac arrest, congestive heart failure and congenital heart disease. Another name for heart disease is cardiovascular disease.
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Prevention of Heart Disease : Prevention of Heart Disease What is Heart Disease? : What is Heart Disease? Heart : The most hard-working muscle of our body – pumps 4-5 litres of blood every minute during rest Supplies nutrients and oxygen rich blood to all body parts, including itself. Coronary arteries surrounding the heart keep it nourished with blood What is coronary artery disease? : What is coronary artery disease? Over time, fatty deposits called plaque build up within the artery
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P3, M2 1. Pulse Rate It’s the rate per minutes at which your heart beat. It can be felt wherever an artery crosses a bone such as the wrist, the neck or either side of the windpipe, temple and the upper surface of the foot. It can be measured by pressing lightly against the artery wall with 2 or 3 fingers, apart from the thumb as this has a pulse of its own. Count the number of beats in a set of period and multiply the correct multiple to make up 60s or count for 30s and multiply by 2. In order
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America. Smoking can damage your body and nearly every organ in it. These organs include, the heart, blood vessels, lungs, mouth, bones, organs, etc. The smoke from tobacco has many chemicals that are harmful to your heart and blood cells. These chemicals damage the function and structure of your heart. Smoking is a major risk of heart disease. Damages to your heart can lead to the increased risk of getting heart diseases such as atherosclerosis. This disease causes the buildup of plaque in your arteries
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and allows fatty substances to stick to the inside of the arteries and grow. As the plague grows, it leaves small space for blood to travel through the artery and feed the organ or muscle. Plaque blocking blood to the blood flow can also cause heart attack. So, stop smoking, eat healthy like butter, cream, hard cheese, cakes and biscuits, exercise such as walking, swimming and cycling, lose weight (if you are overweight
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health. The number one killer we have today is heart attacks. So what is a heart attack, well it’s when the heart does not get enough blood supply to fully pump which in turn results in no new fresh oxygen for the muscles and eventually will kill muscle tissue. Symptoms you would feel during a heart attack would be pain and discomfort in the chest and arms, sweating, nausea, extreme weakness, anxiety, and rapid or irregular heartbeats. During a heart attack, symptoms can last up to 30 minutes or longer
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cardiovascular disease While cardiovascular disease can refer to many different types of heart or blood vessel problems, the term is often used to mean damage caused to your heart or blood vessels by atherosclerosis (ath-ur-o-skluh-RO-sis), a buildup of fatty plaques in your arteries. This is a disease that affects your arteries. Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients from your heart to the rest of your body. Healthy arteries are flexible and strong. Over time, however, too
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oblongata and motor nerves, all working together. Another rapid acting mechanism in the regulation of blood pressure is the secretion of epinephrine and norepinephrine by the adrenal gland. Baroreceptors, are found in certain places in the walls of the heart where they are able to sense any change in blood pressure. After the baroreceptor sence a change the sensory nerves are activated and send a message to the medulla oblongata, which is located in the brain. Depending on the signal received the medulla
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2011). In this essay, I will discuss coronary heart disease symptoms, detection, prevention, causal mechanisms, treatment, and effects. I will also analyze its global variations and recommend how public health officers can be able to promote prevention and treatment measures. Coronary heart disease is a disease that develops over a long time. This disease involves accumulation or deposition of plaque in the coronary arteries that supply the heart muscles with oxygen and nourishments. The plaque
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