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What is a heart attack?
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a heart attack isa block of the coronary artery; this leads to no blood flow which makes a dead heart msucle
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5 risk factors?
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aging, blood, pressure, cholestoral, diabetes, and family history
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what happens when you age?
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your coronary atery weakens
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What happens when you have high blood pressure?
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then your aterteyrs fill with cholesterol
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Cholestoral?
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aterterys may be blocked
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Diabetes
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your blood vessels are breaking apart
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family?
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genetics
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2 immediate treatments of a heart attak are?
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anaioplasty and blood thinger.
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what is argioplasty used for?
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used to open up the arterys. It is a wire type thing that they put inside and then pus a button and a baloon opens to open the artery.
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What does blood thinner do?
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is used to thin thye blood so that tit can travel through the arterys and make it to the heart. It is also used to break up blood
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3 long term prevents of heart attacks are?
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loose weight, dont smoke, and dont stress out
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obese?
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you have more blood vessels which causes your herte rate to increase which makes you have an untrained heart.
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if you smoke?
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this causes your blood pressure to increase and makes your blood vessels contrict
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stress?
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your blood pressure goes up and your blood vessels constrict
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