*Heart Disease* -- Crossword Puzzle

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