Hypertension and Heart Failure

We have heard that high blood pressure is bad for you, but how does this affect your heart? A look into how hypertension can change the cardiac cycle and why double bacon cheeseburgers might not be a heart-healthy snack. www.annalsofmedicalschool.com

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• blood
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• hypertension
• congestive
• heart
• failure
• left
• ventricular
• hypertrophy
• pulmonary
• edema

[ReZZ0420]

Thank you so much for sharing this!! I have a test tomorrow on the cardiovascular system and pulmonary edema. I was getting so bored of studying, but videos like this are really helping me learn it. Thanks!  :)

[cherayawatson]

ARE YOU MARRIED / HITCED / GAY? DO YOU HAVE A STABLE JOB? DO YOU OWN A NEW VEHICLE?

[mearcat74]

you need to clean the fish tank

[dappijue]

I'm completely in love with this video, great explanation!!

[Bvenged505]

You know, you could just consume a healthy diet. As long as you look after yourself you really don't need to constantly check your blood pressure for a stratagised drug intake in lowering blood pressure. I'm not saying don't eat that take-away. Just eat only one maybe every friday in a fortnight.

[litebug12345]

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[tjb234567]

More likely due to genetics

[tjb234567]

...causing pulmonay oedema. A recent study in America showed that about 70% of patients with heart failure have ischaemic heart disease.

[tjb234567]

Explain heart failure with preserved ejection fraction - also known as diastolic heart failure. Interestingly, there is a lot of research coming out from numerous labs showing that a diet relatively high in fat attenuates cardiac hypertrophy. However, consuming this type of diet will lead to coronary atherosclerosis, ischaemic heart disease and systolic heart failure (where the heart cannot eject the blood during systole). This leads to a back pressure which is reflected back into tbhe lungs...

[litebug12345]

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