Cardiovascular System

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Cardiovascular System

• ByJourdan Jacques

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Function

• Your heart pumps blood through all of your blood
  vessels

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Structure

• Heart
• Right side pumps blood to lungs
• Left side pumps blood to body
• Arteries
• Carries blood away from heart
• Thick and sturdy
• Hollow
• Walls are made of strong elastic tissues
• Blood
• Delivers oxygen,food
• Not simple
• Liquid tissue
• Contains water plasma,red and white blood cells

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Relationships to other systems

• Brian/Nervous
• System
• The heart pumps blood to the brain to keep it
  working
• The brain keeps the heart pumping by sending it
  signals when to pump

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Diseases or conditions

• Heart Attack
• Blood supply to an area of the brain is reduced
  or stopped
• Heart muscles die
• Cause
• A clot blocks a coronary artery
• Becomes narrow
• Symptoms
• Severe crushing pain
• Tightness or squeezing in chest or upper abdomen
• Treatment
• Give drugs to break up the clots or reduce the
  risk of more clots
• Diet change
• exercise

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Disease or condition

• Heart Failure
• Inability to maintain work load of pumping
  blood throughout the body
• Symptoms
• Body gathers a lot of fluids(to much)
• Arms and legs swell
• Shortness of breath
• Heart enlarges
• Treatment
• Reduce amount of fluid
• Given drugs
• The drugs help strengthen the heart

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Interesting and Unusual Facts

• The adult body contains over 60,000 miles of
  blood vessels
• An adult heart pumps nearly 4000 gallons of blood
  each day
• Heart beats 30 million times a year
• A heartbeatis the sound of the valves in the
  heart closing as they push blood through its
  chambers
• As people eat fat it builds up in there arteries