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    aged and is prevalent cardiovascular disease to older people (Eliopoulos, c2014 p270). Hypertension is also known as high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries, which carry blood from your heart to other parts of your body (About High Blood Pressure 2011). If you have high blood pressure, the force exerted on your arteries is too high. It 's so high that it creates microscopic tears in the artery walls that then turn into scar tissue.…

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    Human beings constantly strive for comfort, whether that comes in the form of money, love, groups of people, temperature or a certain place. And while stepping outside of your comfort zone is important and necessary in life, sometimes you need to be in your own safe space to be able to relax, open up and be productive. Although Emily Dickinson actively removed herself from society and didn’t travel to gain inspiration like other authors, she did spend time immersing her mind in her subject…

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    likeness. Even though we look different, our hearts and soul remain the same because God has given us this gift. Benedict calls unto us stating that we are brothers and sisters, which means that when one of our brothers cries with pain, we greet them with the blessings upon our lives. Charity is defined as a pure demonstration of love for others and truth.…

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    builds up inside your arteries. Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood to your heart and other parts of your body. Plaque is made up of fat, cholesterol, calcium, and other substances found in the blood. Over time, plaque hardens and narrows your arteries, reducing blood flow to your organs (such as your heart) and other parts of your body. This can lead to serious problems, including heart attack, stroke, or even death Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the wall…

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    whole body and won't function well.Blood vessels are the body’s highways that allow blood to flow quickly and efficiently from the heart to every region of the body and back again. Without blood being pumped through your body you will soon die because no blood means your heart will soon die be it's going to get bigger and bigger if no blood pumps through the body .The heart is a four-chambered “double…

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    • Muscle tissue: Cardiac and skeletal muscle Cardiac and skeletal muscles have very few similarities and many differences. Firstly cardiac muscles location is found in the heart and the skeletal muscle location is found all over the body in every single bone present in humans. The similarities of cardiac and skeletal to start with is that they are both striated muscle structured, but cardiac is lightly striated and skeletal is heavily striated. Now to describe the differences, initially…

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    Therefore, if a child (person) walks barefooted in an area where there are such larvae, they will penetrate the person's feet and ankles. The point at which the larva enters the skin becomes sore. From the skin, the larvae go to the bloodstream to the heart…

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    as minute volume is the volume of blood ejected from the left or right ventricle of the heart in one minute. It’s the primary determinant of oxygen transport within the heart and entire body. Sufficient blood flow is highly important especially during exercise because the body will need much more oxygen. With the need for more oxygen, the heart will begin to beat and pump faster during exercise. As the heart rate increases so will the blood flow, also known as hyperemia. Energy and oxygen is…

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    What is the SCA? What Can Cause your heart to stop beating? We hear a lot about heart disease and its causes that considered from our wrong daily habits. Most of them can be treated and coexist with, but there is a disease that affects the heart and makes it stop pumping blood through the body without any introductions or previous symptoms which would lead to the death of the injured person on the spot. This disease, known as sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) • What is the sudden cardiac arrest?…

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    circulating blood to parts of our body. The blood in our body contains red and white blood cells, plasma, and platelets. Those are then distributed through the body to the pulmonary circulation. The human heart is the engine of the pulmonary circulation (Farley,2012). Blood is then delivered to our heart. Waste from the cells of our body is removed and blood is distributed to our vines (Farley, 2012). Therefore when we engage in cardiovascular fitness our muscles demand an increase of blood…

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