Hot environments can raise your resting heart rate because your body has to work harder to cool down. Staying in cooler areas can keep your body from working so hard. Quit smoking and other forms of tobacco Smoking and other tobacco products cause your arteries and veins to get smaller. This...
At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.
These chambers repressurize the blood and send it through the arteries to the rest of the body. In other words, octopuses and humans solve the same problem in two very different ways: octopuses by having multiple hearts, and humans by having a heart with multiple chambers. In the human ...
Your heart is the most important muscle in your body because it pumps blood and oxygen to all of your organs. When your heart doesn’t get the care it needs, serious problems can develop in the lining of the arteries, which then lead to plaque formation. Plaque is what leads to heart ...
Fat can b uild up in the arteries, block the flow of bloo d, and cause a heart attack or stroke. Getting rid of bad habits like smoking and dr inking alcohol is also an important way to kee p healthy. Smoking and drinking alcohol injur e one's health a great deal, and therefore...
A team led by Dr. Elena Cano in the Integrative Vascular Biology Lab of Professor Holger Gerhardt at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin has elucidated the mechanism via which new arteries form in the heart. The finding, published in Circulation Research,
Collateral arteries are not pre-existing in the mouse heart, and only form in response to injury. Myocardial infarction creates tissue hypoxia that triggers the expression of growth factors and chemokines that guide collaterogenesis. Collateral development is more robust in neonatal hearts when ...
Oxygen: Specialized nerve cells within the aorta and carotid arteries called peripheral chemoreceptors monitor the oxygen concentration of the blood and feed back on the respiratory centers. If the oxygen concentration in the blood decreases, they tell the respiratory centers to increase the rate and...
Atherosclerosis is the root cause of many cardiovascular diseases. Extensive research in preclinical models and emerging evidence in humans have established the crucial roles of the innate and adaptive immune systems in driving atherosclerosis-associated
even though they know it helps prevent heart disease and helps with sex and intelligence and depression and many other things, bone mass. Most people won't make time to do it because they're rushed for time. They aren't sleeping enough, they're working too much, their family needs them...