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