Heart Disease
What is the name of the condition in which plaque builds up inside arteries?
What is atherosclerosis?
What type of doctor can help diagnose and treat heart problems?
What is a Cardiologist?
Blood to your heart may be restricted due to CAD, but you don’t feel any effects.
What is No Symptoms (Silent Ischemia?)
What condition occurs when blood pushes too hard against the walls of blood vessels?
What is high blood pressure?
What are the pumps of the heart called?
What are the ventricles?
What is high blood pressure also called?
What is hypertension?
What test measures the electrical activity of your heart?
What is An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)?
Another name for Chest Pain.
What is "Angina?"
25-30 lbs overweight.
What is obesity?
What is the largest artery in the human body called?
What is the Aorta?
What's another name for heart disease?
What is Coronary Artery Disease?
What procedure can doctors use to open a coronary artery that has become narrowed or blocked?
What is Angioplasty or a Stent?
When the heart cannot pump blood as well as it should, causing fluid to build up in the body, especially in the lungs or legs.
What is "Congestive Heart Failure?"
What disease affects how the body controls blood sugar and can increase heart disease risk?
What is diabetes?
How many chambers of the heart are there?
What are 4?
What is the job of the coronary arteries?
What is to supply blood to the heart?
An operation that helps blood get around a blocked artery in the heart.
(Doctors use a healthy blood vessel from another part of the body to make a new path for blood to flow around the blockage).
What is Heart bypass surgery?
Happens when blood flow to part of the heart gets blocked, so the heart muscle cannot get the oxygen it needs.
What is a Heart Attack?
What is means to be "Sedentary."
What is lack of physical activity?
What is an Arrhythmia as it relates to the heart?
What is the name of the condition in which the heart beats too fast, too slowly, or irregularly?
Fatty deposits that build up in the walls of the arteries?
What is Plaque?
Measures blood supply to the heart.
What is a Stress Test?
What symptom makes it difficult to get enough air when breathing?
What is shortness of breath?
Harmful substances can cause a hardening of the arteries over time and damage the coronary arteries in the heart.
What is smoking/vaping?
To help keep blood circulating until emergency medical help and other treatment can be provided.
What is CPR? 100 extra points if you can identify what CPR stands for.