In America, death rates due to heart disease were highest in which area of the country?
What is the South
100
In a traditional heart transplant the patient’s diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from what source?
What is a deceased donor
100
The process of taking skin cells from heart failure patients and transforming them into stem cells has only been successful in a what location?
What is a petri dish
100
According to Survey Monkey, the most common form of known heart correction process is what?
What is heart transplant
100
Although 92.31% of people believe that body cells should be used to reconstruct hearts with damage, 13.16% believe they shouldn’t be what type of cell?
What are stem cells
200
In America, death rates due to heart disease were lowest in which area of the country?
What is the West
200
Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is unable to perform what need of the body?
What is pumping blood
200
Bioengineers at Brigham and Women’s hospital (BWH) created an advanced rubber-like material made from tropoelastin which mimics what function of heart cells?
What is their elasticity
200
According to Survey Monkey, a majority of survey takers felt that the field of creating fully working, brand new organs should be continued or discontinued?
What is continued
200
People worry with an extended life expectancy the denser population will result in what?
What is a shortage of resources or overpopulation
300
Heart disease is the cause of 1 out of every how many deaths?
What is 1 out of every 4 deaths
300
Most heart transplants are done on patients who have what stage heart failure?
What is end-stage heart failure
300
Patients with severe scarring from heart disease used stem cells that were harvested from patients, grown in the lab, and then injected back into patients' hearts to reduce the size of what type of tissue?
What is scar tissue
300
According to Survey Monkey, the highest social issue involved what affiliation?
What are religious organizations
300
According to the survey, the greatest social issue concerned what form of cells?
What are stem cells
400
Annually, out of the 715,000 Americans that have a heart attack, for what percentage is it their second heart attack?
What is about 27%
400
The largest risk of a heart transplant is what?
What is organ rejection
400
Cultivating skin cells into stem cells allows the heart cells of an elderly patient to resemble heart cells from what point of the patient’s life?
What is when they were first born
400
According to Survey Monkey, do a majority of the survey takers believe that the population should be concerned about the extended life expectancy rate?
What is no; 61% believe we shouldn’t be concerned
400
A concern of improved heart procedures is the effect on what monetary issue?
What is economics/ taxation
500
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for which gender?
What is both men and women
500
Heart transplants require what actions to be taken to protect the transplanted heart and the patient’s health?
What is carefully following a lifelong routine of medications and follow-up with a doctor.
500
The Jarvik 2000 pump augments the weakened heart's blood output to help restore what throughout the body?
What is a normal blood flow
500
According to Survey Monkey, the survey takers were split 54% to 46% when asked if they believed that scientist should use what materials to replace organs?
What is nontissue materials (ie. Metal)
500
More than 18 people a day nationally die while waiting for what?