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- Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death.
- Cardiovascular disease includes diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
- The heart is the “pumping” force behind your blood flow.
- Arteries carry blood away from the heart to your organs and tissues
- Veins carry blood back to your heart from your organs and tissues.
- Blood pressure readings show your systolic pressure over your diastolic pressure, or the pressure during contraction over your pressure during relaxation.
- Both arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis impact the ability of blood to flow freely in your blood vessels.
- A heart attack is the blockage in a coronary artery.
- A “brain attack” or stroke is the blockage or rupture of the artery that brings oxygenated blood to the brain.
- Everyone should know how to do CPR compressions to keep blood circulating when a person heart has stopped beating.
- Risks for cardiovascular disease are highly lifestyle dependent
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