Medical terms
This kind of medication is used to treat hypertension and works by excreting extra water and salt to lower blood pressure.
What are diuretics?
Eat nuts which have healthy fats, drink water instead of soda...
What are some heart healthy tips?
"White coat syndrome" explains why 1 out of 3 people may have a higher blood pressure reading that is higher than their normal blood pressure.
What is nervousness (about getting blood pressure taken)?
The organ that removes waste from blood.
What is the kidney?
Name a potentially harmful physical response in our bodies associated with negative mental health conditions.
Tubes that carry blood back to heart.
What are veins?
This happens if an artery near the brain is blocked.
What is a stroke?
Systolic blood pressure (BP) <140 and diastolic BP <90 is considered this.
What is normal blood pressure?
The number of chambers in a heart.
What is four?
Name one poor health behavior which may contribute to increased risk for heart disease & stroke
What is angina?
This disease kills more women than breast cancer.
What is heart disease?
Diastolic is this (higher or lower) number on a blood pressure reading?
What is the lower number?
This is the wall separating the left and right sides of the heart
What is the septum?
What are the symptoms of stress on your heart (name at least two).
the term for "death of cells"
What is infarction?
Circulation provides these three things (1 is a service) for the body.
Oxygen, nutrients and a way to get rid of waste.
SMBP stands for this.
What is Self-Measured blood pressure (monitoring)?
The largest artery in the human body (hint: part of the heart).
What is the aorta?
Name the one-cell thin layer that lines your veins, arteries, capillaries, and heart. It is highly sensitive to free radicals & stress compounds.
What is the endothelial lining?
ACE inhibitors are used to treat heart failure and high blood pressure. The acronym ACE is short for this.
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme
Inflammation of the heart muscle.
What is Myocarditis?
The higher number on a blood pressure reading.
What is systolic?
The atria are "upstairs" chambers of the heart and these are the "downstairs" chambers.
What are ventricles?
This condition, triggered by mental stress, happens when the heart isn’t getting enough blood.
What is ischemia?