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Cardiovascular diseases!

Cardiovascular diseases! . Systolic & Diastolic . Systolic blood pressure: is the blood pressure when the heart is contracting Diastolic blood pressure: blood pressure when the heart is in a period of relaxation and expansion. . Risk Factors .

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Cardiovascular diseases!

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  1. Cardiovascular diseases!

  2. Systolic & Diastolic • Systolic blood pressure: is the blood pressure when the heart is contracting • Diastolic blood pressure: blood pressure when the heart is in a period of relaxation and expansion.

  3. Risk Factors • There are many risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease, these include age, gender, high blood pressure, high fat cholesterol levels, tobacco smoking, alcohol use, family history, obesity, lack of physical activity, diabetes mellitus, air pollution.

  4. Prevention • Eating a lot of vegetables, fruit and whole grains, at least 5 portions a day. • Daily not having a lot of alcohol avoid smoking tobacco. • Decrease body fat • Decrease psychosocial stress.

  5. Atherosclerosis • Affects clogging of the arteries, this stops the blood flow getting through the body and reduced blood getting to the muscles.

  6. Arteriosclerosis • When the artery walls harden because of the bodys fatty deposits and poor diet. • The artery walls also become hard and non elastic.

  7. Angina pectoris • When the body has lack of oxygen to the heart muscle there is chest pain. Due to ischemia, usually because of a spaz of the coronary arterys(the hearts blood vessels).

  8. Peripheral vascular disease • When there is not much oxygen getting to the muscles that are working because of increased blood flow around the body.

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