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A
Stroke
aka "brain attack"
is an interruption of the blood supply to any part of the brain.
Congestive heart disease is when heart is weakened due to the heart lacking oxygen rich blood to
get to organs and fails to fulfill it's requirements as the controlling organ.
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diseases that weaken the heart
1
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disease that results in failure of all or a portion of the heart
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diseases that require the heart to demand more oxygen than it can supply
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An irregular heartbeat is called an arrhythmia (also can be called
dysrhythmia)
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Normal heart rate = 50 -100 beats per minute
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850,000+ hospitalized with an arrhythmia each year
- Blood Pressure
is the pressure of blood on the walls of the arteries as it circulates
through the body.
Colorectal cancer are when cancerous growths form in the
colon, rectum, or appendix
.
Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named from physician Alois Alzheimer who first
described the disease in 1906. The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s is a progressive
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