2.4 blood pressure and heart disease

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2.4 blood pressure and heart disease

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measure your blood pressure

healthy?

systolic pressure < 120

diastolic pressure <80

when are your ventricals relaxed?

1. systole
2. diastole

what is hypertension?

1. low bloodpressure
2. high blood pressure

Atherosclerosis

fatty materials are desposited on the inside walls of arteries (they become hard and form plaques)

it clogs the arteries

arteries can become blocked 

in which artery is atherosclerosis especially dangerous?

1. renal arteries
2. hepatic artery
3. coronary arteries
4. gastric artery