*Heart Disease* -- Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. Artery Disease, Narrowing of the arteries leading to the heart and heart attack.
  2. 4. Heart Disease - a condition that clogs coronary ________ with fatty, calcified plaques.
  3. 5. heart rhythms.
  4. 6. pressure, heaviness, tightness, squeezing, or ____ in your chest or arm or below your breastbone are symptoms of a heart attack.
  5. 8. Disease, The leading cause of death in women over 40 years old.
  6. 12. carries fresh oxygen from the ______ and nutrients to the body's tissues.
  7. 15. are small, thin blood vessels that connect the arteries and the veins.
  8. 16. muscular tubes that carry blood to every part of the body.
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  1. 1. What pumps oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout your body to sustain life.
  2. 2. fatigue, shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, dizziness or lightheadedness are heart attack ___________.
  3. 7. or blockage of the arteries causes heart disease.
  4. 9. the heart is part of what system?
  5. 10. Artery Disease that is the narrowing of the arteries.
  6. 11. How many Americans have heart attacks each year, more than a __________.
  7. 13. The heart pumps 100,000 times per day, pumping five or six quarts of ______ each minute, or about 2,000 gallons per day.
  8. 14. Attack, When something blocks the blood flow to your heart so it can’t get the oxygen it needs.