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Connected together, our blood vessels would measure this distance.
What is 95,000 kilometers
Our tissues can survive without oxygen.
What is false/no?
Blood delivers this gas to the body.
What is oxygen?
This is the name of the force exerted on our blood vessels.
What is blood pressure?
This happens when blood flow to the heart is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
Our blood vessels carry this total volume every day.
What is 7,500 liters?
Our blood pressure never changes.
What is false/no?
Blood delivers precious _________ to the body.
What are nutrients?
When the blood is thicker, the pressure needed to push it along becomes this.
What is higher?
Also accepted: What is more/greater?
This can lead to lower risk of heart attack.
All Acceptable: What is - Weight Loss, Exercise, Healthy Diet, Quitting Smoking, Better Sleep, or Less Alcohol Consumption.
Our heart typically beats this many times per minute.
What is 70 times?
Our blood is recycled and goes through our body multiple times.
What is yes/true?
This happens when blood is blocked from getting to the brain.
What is a stroke?
Stress hormones does this to blood vessels.
What is constricts them?
This device is placed to keep a clogged vessel open to allow blood flow.
What is a stent?
Our heart beats approximately this many times in a lifetime.
What is 2.5 billion times?
Blood pressure is highest during systole.
What is true/yes?
This food seasoning causes an increase in water retention.
What is salt?
This blood pressure is considered a normal reading.
What is 120/80?
A buildup of plaque that blocks blood flow in the vessels is called this.
What is artherosclerosis?
The human body contains approximately this amount of total blood.
What is (anywhere between 4.5-5.7) liters?
Talking during a blood pressure screening can cause a high reading.
What is yes/true?
When it builds up, this substance causes artherosclerosis.
What is plaque?
This blood pressure is considered hypertension (high blood pressure).
What is 140/90
An angioplasty uses this device to keep a clogged vessel open.
What is a balloon?