SOME AMAZING FACTS OF HEART
- Cocaine affects the heart’s electrical activity and causes spasm of the arteries, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke, even in healthy people.
- Some heavy snorers may have a condition called obtrusive sleep apnea (OSA), which can negatively affect the heart.
- The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body’s 75 trillion cells. Only the corneas receive no blood supply.
- During an average lifetime, the heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood—enough to fill 200 train tank cars.
- Five percent of blood supplies the heart, 15-20% goes to the brain and central nervous system, and 22% goes to the kidneys.
- The “thump-thump” of a heartbeat is the sound made by the four valves of the heart closing.
- The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100,000 times a day; 3,600,000 times a year; and 2.5 billion times during a lifetime.
- The volume of blood pumped by the heart can vary over a wide range, from five to 30 liters per minute.
- Though weighing only 11 ounces on average, a healthy heart pumps 2,000 gallons of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels each day.
- Because the heart has its own electrical impulse, it can continue to beat even when separated from the body, as long as it has an adequate supply of oxygen.
- A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in circulation. An adult human has about four to five quarts which the heart pumps to all the tissues and to and from the lungs in about one minute while beating 75 times.
- The heart begins beating at four weeks after conception and does not stop until death.
- A woman’s heart typically beats faster than a man’s. The heart of an average man beats approximately 70 times a minute, whereas the average woman has a heart rate of 78 beats per minute.
- Physician Erasistratus of Chios (304-250 B.C.) was the first to discover that the heart functioned as a natural pump.
- Every day 2,700 people die of heart disease.
- The risk of heart disease for inactive people is double that of people who get regular exercise.
- The first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967.
- The pressure created in the heart during a heartbeat is enough to squirt blood a distance of thirty feet.
- Each minute your heart pumps 1.5 gallons of blood.
- Heart disease has been found in 3000 year old MUMMIES.
- The BLUE WHALE has largest heart weighing over 1500 pounds.
- Happiness and a strong sense of emotional vitality helps lower your risk of heart disease.
- A normal heart valve is about the size of a half dollar.
- The more education you have, the lower your risk of heart disease.
- A good belly laugh can send 20% more blood flowing through your entire body.
- A man’s heart weighs about 10 ounces, while a woman’s heart weighs approximately 8 ounces.
