Heart Basics
Risk Factors
Healthy Habits
Heart Diseases
Fun Heart facts
100
This organ pumps blood throughout your body
What is the heart?
100
This common salty food ingredient can raise blood pressure
What is sodium?
100
100: This type of exercise strengthens the heart
What is cardiovascular or aerobic exercise?
100
A heart attack happens when blood flow to this part of the body is blocked
What is the heart muscle?
100
February is recognized as this national health awareness month
What is American Heart Month?
200
The heart has this many chambers
What is four?
200
Smoking increases the risk of this heart-related emergency
What is a heart attack?
200
Eating a diet rich in these healthy fats (found in fish, nuts, and olive oil) is good for heart health.
What are omega-3 fatty acids?
200
The condition that means high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
200
The heart beats about this many times per day
What is 100,000 times?
300
This major artery carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body
What is the aorta?
300
High levels of this "bad" cholesterol increase the risk of heart disease
What is LDL cholesterol?
300
This number represents normal blood pressure in most healthy adults
What is 120/80 mmHg?
300
This heart condition causes an irregular heartbeat
What is arrhythmia?
300
The average adult heart is about the size of this common object
What is a fist?
400
The heart is located slightly to this side of the chest
What is the left?
400
A family history of heart disease is an example of this type of risk factor
What is a genetic or hereditary risk factor?
400
The American Heart Association recommends at least this many minutes of moderate exercise per week
What is 150 minutes?
400
This term refers to the buildup of plaque in the arteries
What is atherosclerosis?
400
The human heart starts beating at this early stage of pregnancy
What is about 4 weeks?
500
The heart's electrical system controls this action, which keeps it beating
What is the heartbeat or heart rhythm?
500
Diabetes increases the risk of this specific heart condition
What is coronary artery disease?
500
This stress-relieving practice, which includes deep breathing and mindfulness, can lower blood pressure
What is meditation or yoga?
500
Congestive heart failure happens when the heart has trouble doing this
What is pumping blood efficiently?
500
The study of the heart and its diseases is called this
What is cardiology?