Celebrity Patients
This game show host suffered two heart attacks during his reign as Jeopardy's beloved host for 37 seasons, one in 2007 and the other in 2012.
Who is Alex Trebeck?
This large vein brings deoxygenated blood from the lower body into the right atrium.
What is the inferior vena cava?
This popular, quick option for food is highly addictive and is the leading cause of poor nutrition that can lead to heart disease.
What is Junk Food?
This "King of Rock and Roll" famously died from cardiac arrest on August 16th 1977, in his Memphis TN Bathroom.
Who is Elvis Presley?
After blood leaves the right ventricle, it travels through this valve into the pulmonary artery.
What is the pulmonary valve?
This highly addictive beverage can damage the heart muscles, weakening them (cardiomyopathy) and making it more difficult to pump blood, leading to hypertension.
This Nobel Peace Prize winning "Mother" is best known for her dedicated services to charities and the poor, and passed away after suffering many years of heart attacks and hypertension.
Who is Mother Teresa?
Oxygenated blood returns from the lungs through these vessels into the left atrium.
What are the pulmonary veins?
This feeling shows how mental and physical wellbeing are tied closely together, and how when being under this feeling can lead to adverse health effects.
What is Stress?
This mother daughter duo passed just one day away from one another, the daughter from cardiac arrest and her mother from an intracerebral hemorrhage. Both were famous for their roles in Star Wars and Singing in the Rain.
This valve opens to allow blood to flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle.
What is the mitral valve?
This lifestyle choice is responsible for doubling the risk of stroke, and a person would be 2 to 4 times more likely of getting heart disease.
What is Smoking?
She is a famous Talk show host, actress, and comedian best known for her roles in "A League of Their Own" and "The Flintstones" who suffered "Widow Maker" Heart Attack in 2012.
Who is Rosie O'Donnell?
Complete this path: Right atrium → Tricuspid valve → Right ventricle → ______ → Pulmonary arteries.
What is the pulmonary valve?
This gender is more likely to have heart disease, not know it, and succumb to it.
What are Women?