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