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External Structures Of Human Heart
By peace | May 18, 2006
Facts About The Human Heart
The human heart is small, a little larger than a clenched fist. Relatively simple in function, your heart’s primary purpose is to pump…24 hours a day, 70 to 80 times a minute. With each beat, the heart pumps blood that delivers life-sustaining oxygen and nutrients to 300 trillion cells. Each day the average heart “beats” (or expands and contracts) 100,000 times and pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood. In a 70-year lifetime, an average human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times, pumping approximately 1 million barrels of blood.
Interesting Facts about the heart:
- Cardiac muscle never completely relaxes—it is always maintained in a degree of tone.
- The average heartbeat is 72 times per minute, 100,000 times a day, 38 million times a year, and 2.5 billion times by the time you turn 70years old.
- The average heart pumps 2.4 ounces of blood per heartbeat, 1.3 gallons per minute, 1,900 gallons per day, almost 700,000 gallons per year, or 48 million gallons by the time someone is 70 years old.
Heart Disease Statistics
- Every 34 seconds a person in the United States dies from heart disease.
- More than 2,500 Americans die from heart disease each day.
- Every 20 seconds, a person in the United States has a heart attack.
- At least 250,000 people die of heart attacks each year before they reach a hospital.
- Studies show that under-educated people are more likely to suffer heart attacks.
- The countries with the highest death rates from heart disease are the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. The countries with the lowest are Japan, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Canada.
- Almost 6 million hospitalizations each year (in the United States) are due to cardiovascular disease.
- Since 1900, Cardio Vascular Disease has been the number 1 killer in the United States for every year but 1918.
- Every 33 seconds, a person dies from Cardio Vascular Disease in the United States.
- Men suffer heart attacks about 10 years earlier in life than women do.
Topics: Diseases | 1 Comment »
August 8th, 2007 at 2:52 am
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