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    What is a heart attack? A heart attack is a sudden and sometimes fatal occurrence of coronary thrombosis, resulting in the death of part of a heart muscle. It can also be called myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome, or coronary thrombosis. There are greater than three million cases just in the United States per annum. There are three most popular methods to diagnose a heart attack. Blood tests During blood tests, blood is checked for abnormal amounts of proteins such as cardiac troponin

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    consists of the heart, which is a muscular pumping device, and vessels called arteries, veins, and capillaries (Silverthorn, D.U, et al. 2016). The heart pumps blood around a closed unit of vessels as it passes through circulations of the body. The human heart is a four-chambered muscular organ. The heart is enclosed in a pericardial sac that is lined with the parietal layers of a serous membrane (Silverthorn, D.U, et al. 2016). There are three layers of tissue that form the heart wall: the inner

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    HEART ATTACKS Each Year 1.1 Million people in the United States have heart attacks and almost half of them die. It may be surprising that while many women believe breast cancer is most threatening to them, it is a fact that they are eight times more likely to die of a heart attack. Coronary Artery Disease which often leads to a heart attack is by far the leading cause of death of both men and women. WHAT IS A HEART ATTACK? Other Names for a heart attack include the name Myocardial Infarction

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    heartache, giving each person a false assumption that emotions come from our “hearts”. This hypothesis came when people noticed that their heart beat faster when they were frightened or even thrilled and the rest was history. But in reality we know that the brain is the central housing for emotions and informs the heart that it should increase its speed. Located in the middle of your chest slightly to the left is your heart, it is the size of your fist and is the most important muscle in your body

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    known as the heart is a major organ that circulates blood through the human body by veins and arteries known as the circulatory system. During the pumping action it carries deoxygenated blood through the veins to the lungs where oxygenation takes place and is then circulated through the arteries back to the heart. Anatomy and Physiology of the Heart The heart is located in the thoracic cavity of the chest in the middle of the lungs and beneath the sternum. At the base, or top of the heart, is the aorta

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    DIAGNOSIS OF HEART DISEASE Data mining as it has been established is simply a way of getting hidden knowledge or information from data, the technique(s) employed search for concurrency, relationships, and outliers in this data that they present as knowledge [4]. This knowledge can then be used in different applications. Prediction is one of the ways that the hidden knowledge gotten from the data can be used. The main aim is to use a large number of past values to consider probable future [9]. Heart disease

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    Heart Exercise Analysis

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    that exercise has on your heart rate is that it speeds it up. I feel like exercising is good for your heart because it keeps it working. We started our physio assignment on the 15th of june and it also ended on the 3rd of july. The first observation I made was that for 15 seconds my heart beat 14 times when resting. My heart beat after running the course was beating at a rate of 24 for 15 seconds. The following day my resting heart beat was 14 beats for 15 seconds and my heart after running was at 30

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    functioning and overall health. The heart is an organ that is mostly composed of muscle, and just like all the other muscles in your body, it needs to be worked in order to maximize its efficiency. The heart is designed to pump blood throughout the body, the weaker the heart, the faster it has to pump to compensate for the amount of work needed to distribute the blood. There have been studies that highlight the adaptations that occur within the athlete’s heart; cavity enlargement as well as wall

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    Heart Failure Definition

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    Symptoms of heart failure are divided into two parts which are left and right sided of the heart. Heart failure may happen due to the “pooling” of fluid in the lungs, abdominal area, legs or feet; it can also be caused by decreased blood flow to the body. The left-sided failure of the heart causes blood to back up or be congested to the lungs, causing respiratory symptoms such as: shortness of breath all the time especially during the night while sleeping, frequent dry cough and many more. Left side

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    Congenital Heart Disease

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    basically describes conditions that require immediate medical attention and can end up being fatal without immediate action. Congenital heart disease in newborns is a very common birth defect and effects roughly 1 in 100 or 1% of the babies born in the United States. Some of the heart defects that are a part of congenital heart defects include, hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), pulmonary atresia (PA), Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), Total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPV/TAPVR), tricuspid atresia

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