Fifteen Surprising things about
Human Heart you most likely
did not know
1. Human heart pumps 6240 litres of blood in a day. This is likely more than double the fuel you put in your car in a year!
2. Your heart beats 100,000 times in a day. Over a lifetime of 70 years, it will beat more than 2.5 billion times!
3. The organ that receives the most blood from your heart is not your brain, which gets 15% of the total blood pumped. The organ that gets the most amount of blood are the kidneys which gets 20% of the total blood pumped by heart.
4. There is a reason why you don’t hear about heart cancer. Human Heart cells don’t divide and replicate like the cells of other organs. Hence Heart cancer is extremely rare.
5. The two phases of a heart beat are called systole (when heart contracts to push the blood out) and diastole (when it relaxes and refills). The difference between these two is your blood pressure.
6. Heart is not the only organ in your body which pumps blood. To overcome the pull of gravity, nature has evolved our leg muscles to also help pump the blood back from our lower bodies. But they can do that only if they are being used. That is the reason why sitting for too long is harmful for your health.
Human Heart 7. Heart is the only organ to have only one known function in the body i.e. pumping blood.
8. Blood pressure in your body is not constant throughout a day. It’s higher during the day and lowest around dawn just before sunrise. This is believed to be one of the key reasons why heart attacks are more common during the dead of night.
9. Heart Attack and Cardiac arrest are often confused to be the same but are different. Heart Attack is a condition where oxygenated blood can’t get to the heart due to blockage in a coronary artery. Cardiac arrest is when heart stops pumping blood altogether, usually because of failure in electrical signalling in the body.
10. More than half of the first heart attacks occur in people who are fit and have no known obvious risks. Eating well, exercising and keeping your weight in check is good but not a complete defence against heart attack. Get regular health screenings done after the age of 35.
11. In general, women’s heart beats faster than men. An average human heart beats 70 times per minute while for women the figure is 78.
12. Men and Women have heart attacks in a different way. A woman is more likely to experience abdominal pain and nausea thus increasing chances of misdiagnosis.
13. Cardio Vascular Diseases (CVD) the leading cause of death in India. Of all CVD deaths in the world, 40% happen in India.
14. Heart has its own electric impulse and can continue to beat even if separated from the body.
15. The youngest person to receive heart surgery was only a minute old.
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