General
Heart Diseases and Disorders
Fun facts
Signs and Symptoms
Vascular Disorders
100

your heart can't beat as fast during physical activity or when you are stressed out, however the normal heartbeats per minute is not greatly effected 

What is the effects of aging on the heart? 

100

Caused by plaque (cholesterol)  build up in the walls of arteries that supply blood to the heart, causing the arteries to narrow. 

What is Coronary Artery Disease ?

100

60 to 100 bpm 

What is the average heart rate per minute ?

100

Men and Women have different symptoms of this. The symptoms women have are much less prominent than that of a mans. Common symptoms for both sexes are chest tightness, pressure and chest pain, but women can also expierence pain in the arms, back, neck, jaw or stomach 

What is a heart attack? 

100

Disorders that affect the blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients throughout your body 

What is a vascular disorder ?

200

The cardiovascular system delivers oxygen, hormones, nutrients and other important substances to the cells and organs in the body. 

How does the cardiovascular system affect achieving and maintaining overall wellness?

200

Lowering blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, not smoking and maintaining a healthy weight. 

What is prevention of Coronary Artery Disease?

200

Roughly the size of your fist 

What is the approximate size of an adult heart?

200

lack of circulation 

What is Carotid Artery disease?

OR

What is a blood clot?

200

The narrowing of carotid arteries, as they narrow they can start to effect the amount of blood flowing to the brain. 

What is Carotid Artery disease ?

300

Examples of this could be eating a healthy low trans and saturated fat diet, getting enough exercise, not excessively drinking and not smoking 

What is positive lifestyle choices for the cardiovascular system?

300

Quiting smoking ( if a factor), eating healthy and exercising more with the help of one or more of the following medications cholesterol drugs, aspirin, beta blockers , calcium channel blockers , ACE, ARBs, nitroglycerin, or ranolazine. 

What is the treatment of Coronary Artery Disease ?

300

This age of humans heart beats faster than other ages

What are newborns and infants ?

300

unusual tiredness or a fatigue that never goes away 

What is heart disease ?

300

A blockage of one of the main arteries in your lungs, often caused by a deep vein blood clot. 

What is Pulmonary embolism ? 

400

Drinking often, smoking alot, eating excessive amounts of trans and saturated fats, and not dealing with obesity. 

What are negative lifestyle choices for the cardiovascular system ? 

400

less productivity, breathlessness, and becoming tired more easily. 

How does Coronary Artery disease effect the rest of the body? 

400

There are roughly sixty thousand miles of these within the human body 

What are blood vessels ? 

400

sudden or continuous chest pain 

What is Angina ? 
400

Eating a low-fat. low-cholesterol diet high in nutrients, stopping smoking, getting regular exercise, not staying still constantly, staying hydrated and maintaining healthy weight 

How to prevent vascular disorders ?

500

raising good cholesterol levels 

What is raising high density lipoproteins ?

500

Occur most commonly on Monday mornings 

What is a heart attack ?

500

This organ works twice as hard as the leg muscles of a sprinter 

What is the heart ? 

500

Rapid heart beats, skipping beats or fluttering 

what is palpitations ? 

500

Cardiac arrest, cardiac arrhthmia , pleural effusion 

How does Pulmonary embolism effect the rest of the body ?