THE HUMAN HEART

INTERESTING FACTS

• The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute
• 100,000 times a day,3,600,000 times a year ,
• 2.5 billion times in a lifetime
• It weighs only 11 ounces but it pumps 2,000
• Gallons of blood through 60,00o miles of vessels

MORE FUN FACTS

• A kitchen faucet would have to be turned
• On for 45 years to equal the amount of
• Blood pumped in a lifetime.
• The volume of blood pumped by the heart
• Can 5-30 liters a minute.

MORE INFORMATION

• The heart makes enough energy to drive
• A truck 20 miles every day.
• The heart pumps blood to all the bodies 75 trillion
• Cells except the corneas.

INTERESTING INFORMATION

• In a lifetime the heart pumps enough
• Blood to fill 1.5 million barrels of blood
• That is enough to fill 200 train cars
• The thump of a heart if the sound of
• Four valves closing

FUN FACTS

• The heart begins beating at 4 weeks
• Of conception and does not stop
• Until DEATH
• Heavy snorers might have a condition called
• Sleep apnea which can effect the heart

EVEN MORE FACTS

• Prolonged lack of sleep can cause irregular
• Jumping heart beats called premature ventricular
• Contractions
• Grab a tennis ball and squeeze it tightly: that's how hard
• The human heart works to pump blood

WHAT CAUSES A HEART ATTACK

• A heart attack happens if the flow of
• Oxygen -rich blood to a section of heart
• Muscle suddenly becomes blocked and the heart
• Can't get oxygen. Most heart attacks occur as a
• Result of coronary heart disease (CHD)

WHAT IS (CHD)

• It is a narrowing of the small blood
• Vessels that supply blood and oxygen
• To the heart.
• (CHD) is coronary heart disease;)

STROKE WITH HEART?

• No it is not because a stroke is when
• a blood vessel to the brain is blocked by
• A clot. When this happens the part of the
• Brain is not getting blood and oxygen so
• It will start to die

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