Cardiovascular Disease Part 2

Question 1

True or false: I love my man

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or false: I love you more

Answer 2

True

Question 3

True or false: you love me more

Answer 3

False

Question 4

What type of muscle does LDL enter?

Answer 4

Smooth muscle

Question 5

How to lower cholesterol? Why?

Answer 5

• Diet (lower saturated fat intake)
• weight loss
• exercise
• medications (statins)
  Why?
• your adipose tissue can release fatty acids into the blood that go to the liver, and than the liver secretes LDL, your dietary fat again gets broken down into fatty acids, which go to the liver, then repackages and ships it off as LDL

Question 6

Does narrow arteries mean increased or decreased pressure?

Answer 6

Increased.

Question 7

Our heart beats and relaxes, which is our systole and which is our diastole?

Answer 7

Heart beat: systole, heart relaxes: diastole

Question 8

What is an optimal blood pressure?

Answer 8

S/ D = 120 / 80

Question 9

What is a hypertensive blood pressure?

Answer 9

S/ D = 140/90

Question 10

Consequences of hypertension in the brain?

Answer 10

Pop of a blood vessel (Aneurysms) that can lead to a stroke.

Question 11

Consequences of hypertension in eyes

Answer 11

Blindness

Question 12

Consequences of hypertension in heart

Answer 12

Heart attack or a myocardial infarction

Question 13

Consequences of hypertension in kidneys

Answer 13

Kidney damage

Question 14

Consequences of hypertension in arteries

Answer 14

Can lead to general clots and high blood pressure further in the rest of your body.

Question 15

what are the three things that can be regulated from CVD medications?

Answer 15

Heart Rate, Blood volume and relaxes blood vessels

Question 16

What happens when part of the heart is blocked off?

Answer 16

the parts start to die due to not enough blood circulation. the parts get hard which makes it harder for the heart to beat because its not as elastic

Question 17

Risk Factors for having a heart attack (myocardial infarction)

Answer 17

age, hypertension, high red blood cell count, blood cholestrol, diabetes, smoking, ethnicity

Question 18

Heart attack symptoms

Answer 18

sweating or cold, clammy skin, nausea and vomiting, discomfort in chest, pain may radiate to jaw, shoulder, arm, neck or back, shortness of breath, fainting

Question 19

Women are more likely to report what pain if they are having a heart attack?

Answer 19

jaw, neck or back pain (another may be extreme fatigue)

Question 20

Men are more likely to report what pain if they are having a heart attack?

Answer 20

chest pain

Question 21

Appropriate action within the first ___ minutes of a heart attack can reverse its affects

Answer 21

60

Question 22

What do doctors do if you have chest pain?

Answer 22

1. electrocardiogram (put pads on chest) (EKG or ECG)
2. Stress test
3. Angiography (look at blood vessels in the heart)

Question 23

what is an electrocardiogram?

Answer 23

• simple test that detects and records the electrical activity of your heart
• patterns will tell doctors if there has been a past heart attack or a current heart attack based on heart beat and signals

Question 24

what can be found based on electrical conductivity of heart tissues?

Answer 24

slow heart beat, fast heart beat, heart not contracting properly, previous or current heart attack

Question 25

Why do we do stress tests?

Answer 25

sometimes we cannot find what is wrong with the heart until we make it beat faster

Question 26

What happens during an Angiography?

Answer 26

dye is put into your heart and then pictures are taken using radiation so doctors can see if there is anywhere the dye has not reached to indicate blood clots not allowing for blood flow.

Question 27

treatment for angina?

Answer 27

1. Lifestyle changes (diet, PA, quit smoking, etc.)
2. Medications (nitrates is the most common which relaxes and widens blood vessels)

Question 28

What is an angioplasty?

Answer 28

a deflated balloon with a cage(stent) around it is inserted into the narrow lumen, balloon then inflates and opens up the blocked vessel and the cage remains opened to maintain blood flow to the heart. happens in arteries

Question 29

Angioplasty is meant to help with?

Answer 29

Angina, so improving your quality years. although, does not make you survive longer.

Question 30

How does a [Coronary Graft] Bypass restore blood flow?

Answer 30

Take a vein from leg or artery from armpit and sew it from aorta and bypass the blocked area to restore blood flow. (instead of entire circulation from heart, blood goes straight from aorta to area with no blood flow because of the help of an artery or vein from elsewhere on body)