Risk Factors
This is the top number of your blood pressure
What is systolic?
This is the number of mg of sodium in a teaspoon of salt
What is 2600 mg?
This is the rate of perceived exertion that we would like our patients to exercise to
What is 11-13?
These are the 4 chambers of the heart
What are the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle
These are risk factors that you CANNOT control
What are age, gender, family history, race
This is a technique used while food shopping to choose options that are heart healthy
What is label reading?
This is the type of activity that exercises your heart
What is sustained cardiovascular exercise?
These are the 4 valves of the heart
What are the aortic, pulmonic, tricuspid and mitral?
These are 3 risk factors that you CAN control
What are high cholesterol, weight, sedentary lifestyle
This is the type of fat found in meat and dairy products
What is saturated fat?
This is what you should not do if you feel ill, too sore, or exhausted
What is exercise?
This is the percentage of blood pumped out of the left ventricle with each heart beat
What is the ejection fraction?
This is the "good" cholesterol that helps to lower the "bad" cholesterol
What is HDL cholesterol?
This is the number of grams of protein you should consume per day (based on 180 lb man)
What is 82 gms?
These are several of the benefits of sustained cardiovascular exercise
What are weight loss, stress reduction, and lowered blood pressure
These are the vessels that feed blood to the heart muscle?
What are the coronary arteries?
This is the number of minutes and amount of time we would like our patients to exercise each week
What is 30-60 minutes, 4-6 times per week?
This is the number of servings of fruits/veges that are recommended per day
What is 2 servings of fruit and 2.5 servings of veges?
The best dancer at York Hospital Cardiac Rehab (and the world)
Who is Bev?
This is the process of fatty plaque build up in the coronary arteries that leads to narrowing and blockage of blood flow to the heart muscle
What is atherosclerosis?