Top Healthcare Conference 2019: 15 HEART RELATED FACTS

#1 With every beat of our heart blood is sent through 60,000 miles of blood vessels, where it delivers important nutrition and oxygen to all our organs and tissues.

#2 If we stretch the blood vessels in your body end-to-end, they’d circle the Earth almost 2.5 times!

#3 Research suggests a good belly laugh can increase your blood flow by 20%. The positive effects of this may last for 24 hours.

#4 On an average, a woman’s heart beats 78 times per minute while the average man’s beats 70 times.

#5 An octopus has three hearts and blood of blue color. Two of the hearts in an octopus pump blood to the gills, while the third circulates it throughout the rest of the body.

#6 Before 1816 when the stethoscope was not invented, doctors used to listen to a patient’s heart by placing their ear to the patient’s bare chest. Later a French doctor, thought this approach to be awkward and of limited clinical value, used a rolled paper sheet to create an aural tube that led to the invention of the stethoscope.

#7 The topmost killer of women in America is heart disease which is more deadly each year than all forms of cancer combined together.

#8 Sadly, around 133,000 Americans die of heart attacks each year.

#9 Our heart pumps 1 million barrels of blood in an average lifetime which is enough blood to fill more than 1,500 Olympic sized swimming pools!

#10 Our heart looks nothing like Valentine's heart instead it is actually shaped more like an upside-down pear.

#12 An adult heart pumps enough blood per minute to fill 38,000 drinking glasses each day!

#15 Studies have found yoga is effective in lowering down our blood pressure by slowing down the heart rate.

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Top Healthcare Conference 2019