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6. What is fitness?
- Being attractive
- The ability to do physical activity
- Freedom from disease
7. How is the risk of heart disease increased?
- High salt intake and high level of saturated fat in the diet
- Drinking too much water
- Smoking
8. What do plaques also make?
- Blood clots or thrombosis
- Food
9. How can smoking increase blood pressure?
- Carbon monoxide combines with haemoglobin therefore it isn't combing with oxygen, so less oxygen is carried
- Smoking makes you stressed therefore blood pressure increases
10. What is heart disease caused by?
- Restricted blood flow to the heart muscle
- Not drinking enough
11. What can low blood pressure cause?
- Dizziness, fainting and poor circulation
- Blood vessels to burst
- Damage to the brain
12. What can high blood pressure cause?
- Blood vessels to burst, damage to the brain (a stroke), and damage to kidneys
- Dizziness and tiredness
- Sickness
13. What can plaques cause?
- A jam
- Narrowing of the arterties
- A build up
14. What is systolic pressure?
- The highest measurement, the pressure when the heart beats, pushing blood through the arteries
- The lowest measurement, when the heart rests between beats
15. How can your general level of fitness be measured?
- Cardiovascular efficiency
- How much food you can eat
- How long you sleep for
16. What is blood pressure measured in?
- mm (millimeters)
- l (liters)
- mmHg (millimeters of mercury)
- cm (centimeters)