CVD

Question 1

Define cardiovascular disease

Answer 1

Cardiovascular disease is a disease of the heart or blood vessels

Question 2

Give three example of CVD

Answer 2

Coronary heart disease, stokes, heart attacks

Question 3

What can cause damage to an artery wall

Answer 3

High blood pressure

Question 4

What causes a heart attack

Answer 4

Bits of the athermas break off or damages the blood vessels

Question 5

Name the arteries that supply the heart muscles oxygen

Answer 5

Coronary artery’s

Question 6

Describe the lifestyle factors that increase CVD risk

Answer 6

1. A diet high in salt and fat
   2.smoking
   3.high blood pressure
2. High in blood cholesterol
3. Lack of exercise

Question 7

State three treatment’s for CVD

Answer 7

Angioplasty, statins, lifestyle changes

Question 8

What does the capillaries do

Answer 8

The capillaries is where gas exchange takes place

Question 9

Label the heart staring from the right

Answer 9

Pulmonary artery
Venacava
Right atrium
Tricuspid valve
Right ventricle
(Left)
Aorta
Pulmonary vein
Left atrium
Biscuspid ( mitral) valve
Left ventricle
In between the pulmonary and aorta is the semi lunar valves

Question 10

RMEBER

Answer 10

Atria contract is open
Ventricles contract is closed

Question 11

Double circulation

Answer 11

The blood goes through the heart twice and around the body once

Question 12

What does the pulmonary circulation do

Answer 12

It carries blood to the lungs and back to the heart

Question 13

What does systemic circulation do

Answer 13

Carries blood to and around the body and back to the heart

Question 14

What does the arteries do

Answer 14

The arteries carries blood away from the heart

Question 15

Whst does the veins do

Answer 15

The veins carry blood towards the heart and it contains valves

Question 16

What does the capillaries do

Answer 16

The capillaries is where has exchange takes place

Question 17

What is the difference between the capillaries and arteries

Answer 17

The arteries has a high pressure and capillaries has a low pressure. The arteries has thick walls and the capillaries has thin walls

Question 18

What are the CVD factors that decreases the risk of CVD

Answer 18

Eating healthy, exercise, stop smoking, keep blood pressure under control

Question 19

What is Cholesterol snd does it have any side effects

Answer 19

Cholesterol is needed by the body however to much cholesterol in the blood causes fatty deposits

Question 20

What are fatty deposits

Answer 20

Fatty deposits build up too form athermas, these cause the artery’s to harden and narrow

Question 21

What do blood clots do

Answer 21

Blood clots( thrombosis) are formed by a build up of plaque

Question 22

How are heart attacks caused

Answer 22

They are caused by reducing blood.

Question 23

What if a blockage occurs in the brain what will happen?

Answer 23

If the blockage occurs in the brain it can cause a stroke

Question 24

Why is smoking and high levels of salt and fat and exercise a big risk of CVD

Answer 24

Smoking has nicotine in cigarettes that can increase your heart rate which increases blood pressure.
High levels of salt and fat if you have too much fat it can increase your blood pressure
Exercise can lower. Blood pressure and blood cholesterol so a lack can increase the risk of high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol which increases the risk of CVD

Question 25

What are statins

Answer 25

Statins reduces the amount of cholesterol in the blood stream daily basis and can induce side effects including aching muscles or on a more serious note liver damage

Question 26

What is angioplasty

Answer 26

Angioplasty is a small balloon is inserted and inflated allowing blood to pass through artery beging to narrow again. Surgery can have a risk of clots, bleeding and infection

Question 27

What is the thickest to the thinnest

Answer 27

Arteries , veins, capillaries

Question 28

RMEBER

Answer 28

1.muscle
2. Endothelium