2007-01-14 19:21:30 · 8 answers · asked by fatemeh arabnezhad 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
That Christ died of a broken heart!
2007-01-14 21:37:03 · answer #1 · answered by tamara.knsley@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coughing vigorously until an ambulance arrives could save the lives of people having a type of heart attack brought on by rapid and erratic heart beat.
The heart is actually located almost in the center of the chest, between the lungs
If you're a kid, your heart is about the same size as your fist, and if you're an adult, it's about the same size as two fists.
Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times.
Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body. Even at rest, the muscles of the heart work hard--twice as hard as the leg muscles of a person sprinting.
Feel your pulse by placing two fingers at pulse points on your neck or wrists. The pulse you feel is blood stopping and starting as it moves through your arteries. As a kid, your resting pulse might range from 90 to 120 beats per minute. As an adult, your pulse rate slows to an average of 72 beats per minute.
The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose. Capillaries, on the other hand, are so small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. This 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every minute. In one day, the blood travels a total of 19,000 km (12,000 miles)--that's four times the distance across the US from coast to coast.
The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime--that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers
2007-01-14 19:32:41 · answer #2 · answered by Dallas C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A heart ache and a heart attack are not the same things. But, either one can change your life forever..
2007-01-14 19:24:49 · answer #3 · answered by timmytoes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that the heart has it's own conduction system, seperate from the rest of the nervous system, and that we can monitor that electrical conduction to diagnose problems.
2007-01-14 19:27:33 · answer #4 · answered by firemedicgm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smoking cigarettes can damage the heart from arteriosclerosis which can lead to a heart attack.
2007-01-14 19:30:00 · answer #5 · answered by Incognito 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The heart is the strongest organ in our body.
2007-01-14 19:29:02 · answer #6 · answered by Natalya Ch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is "automatistic" meaning it creats its own electricity.......it does not rely on the brain to tell it to beat, if a heart was a blood and oxygen supply, it will beat on its own.....every part of the heart has this feature-
2007-01-14 19:26:21 · answer #7 · answered by Dontchawishurboyfriendcouldmix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont do drugs that will stimulate you, especially if you have a bad heart
2007-01-14 19:29:15 · answer #8 · answered by lazer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋