Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Know your heart

      Heart is our most important organ, it keeps us alive after all it does the most important task to ensure that all of our organs will remain healthy. Heart works as a giant pump in our body. Heart performs its 24/7 hours duty when you are working, playing, sleeping or resting, heart does not take any break. Our heart can  beat even after disconnecting from the body. If you do not look after your heart your body will not be able to function properly. The heart of a adult is the same size of two fists and a child is the same size of a single fist.

      Our heart pump about 2,000 gallons of blood every day and  1.5  million barrels of blood during average a lifetime.

       The average  heart beats 72 times a minute, 100000 times a day,  3600000 times a year, and 2.5 billion times during a lifetime.

       An electrical system controls the rhythm of our heart  called the cardiac conduction system.

        The beating sound of our heart is caused of opening and closing of the valves of the heart.

        A woman’s heart beats slightly faster than a man’s heart.The heart  beat of an average adult man approximately 70 times a minute, whereas the average heart beat of a  woman is 78 times per minute.

       The heart pumps blood to 75 trillion cells of our body. The work done by the heart during average a lifetime is equal to 2.5 gigajoules.

         The heart start beating after four weeks of conception and does not stop until death.

         The heart pumps oxygenated blood through the aorta, the largest artery at about  1.6 km per hour.

        The first successful heart transplant was happened On December 3, 1967 by Dr. Christiaan of South Africa transplanted a human heart into the body of Louis Washansky.


        Heart cells stop dividing, which means heart cancer is extremely rare.

        The first open- heart surgery occurred in 1893 by  U.S.  cardiologists Daniel Hale Williams. The first implantable pacemaker  to Arne Larsson was used in 1958.

          The fairy fly is a kind of wasp, has the smallest heart of any living creature.The American pygmy shrew has the fastest heartbeat with 1,200 beats per minute.

  •           The hearts of a man and woman in love will begin to synchronize after the couple has gazed into each other’s eyes for three minutes. Men who are having an affair are more likely to die of cardiac arrest during sex.
  •           Most heart attacks happen on Monday. Christmas day is the most common day of the year for heart attacks.
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