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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