Informative Speech On Cardiovascular Disease

Your heart is the size of your fist and the strongest muscle in your body.

Your heart started beating about three weeks after you were conceived. If you live to be 70 your heart will have beat two and a half billion times. Each heartbeat pumps blood around the body, pushing it from the left heart chambers, through arteries of ever-decreasing size, finally reaching the capillaries in all parts of the body. Once your body has taken oxygen and nutrients from the blood, it is returned to the heart via the veins to the right chambers of the heart. On its way back, the blood passes through the liver and waste products are removed. As marvelous as this system is, it is very vulnerable to damage from the things we do to it, like smoking, eating an

Or you may be born with a heart condition. When your heart’s functions become compromised, this is known as cardiovascular disease, a broad term that covers any disorder to the system that has the heart at its center. Heart disease, what is it? What are the effect on the population especially in the elderly community? Is it preventable?. Heart disease is a cardiovascular disease. It is a disorder of the blood vessels of the heart that can lead to heart attack. Heart attacks happen when when an artery becomes blocked, preventing oxygen and nutrients from getting to the heart. Heart disease is one of several cardiovascular diseases, which are diseases of the heart and blood vessel system. One reason some individuals aren't too concerned about heart disease is that they think it can be terminated with surgery or medication. This is a fabricated story. Heart disease is a lifelong condition and once you get it, you'll always have it. True, procedures such as bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention can help blood and oxygen flow to the heart more easily. But