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6. Lowering your resting heart rate can help prevent...

  • Loss of appetite
  • Heart attacks
  • Gaining weight

7. How can you lower your resting blood pressure?

  • Have a healthy diet
  • Drink alcohol
  • Don't eat any sugar

8. What factors do NOT indirectly affect cardiac output?

  • Drug use
  • Exercise
  • Smoking
  • Chronic high blood pressure

9. What is cardiac hypertrophy?

  • Thickening of the heart muscle
  • Increasing size of the heart
  • Increasing size of the lungs
  • Thickening of the lung muscles

10. What does the alveoli do?

  • Allow oxygen and carbon dioxide to move between the lungs and bloodstream
  • Removes carbon dioxide from bloodstream
  • Increases oxygen intake

11. What is stroke volume?

  • The volume of blood pumped per beat
  • The volume of blood pumped per minute

12. What is hyperthermia?

  • Body temperature increases
  • Body temperature decreases

13. What does not cause your heart rate to increase?

  • Recent sport injury
  • Heart-related conditions such as high blood pressure
  • Poor blood supply to the heart muscle due to coronary artery disease
  • Heart failure

14. What does sudden arrhythmic death syndrome cause?

  • Cardiac arrest
  • Blood clot
  • Brain tumor

15. What can increase your blood pressure?

  • Lack of physical activity
  • Healthy diet
  • Fruit and veg
  • Regular exercise