Did You Know...?

• Electrical impulses in your heart muscle (the myocardium) are what cause your heart to beat.
  
• The heart beats an average of 100,000 times per day.
  
• In a 70-year lifetime, the average human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times.
  
• The adult heart pumps about five quarts of blood each minute and approximately 2,000 gallons each day.
  
• The entire human vascular (blood) system, including arteries, vein and capillaries, is more than 60,000 miles long.
  
• Blood is comprised mainly of water - about 78 percent.
  
• Blood takes about 20 seconds to circulate through the entire human body.
  
• An adult woman's heart weighs about 8 ounces and a man's heart weighs about 10 ounces.
  
• The normal size of an adult heart is a little larger than a clenched fist.
  
• The medical term for a heart attack is myocardial infarction.
  
• Coronary artery disease is the most common form of heart disease and the number one cause of death of both men and women in the United States.
  
• One in five females has some form of cardiovascular disease.
  
• Since 1984, more U.S. women have died each year of cardiovascular disease than men.
  
• In women, heart attacks tend to occur later in life and are more severe than in men.
  
• Women are more likely to die from their first heart attack than men.
  
• Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization in people older than 65.
  
• Heart failure usually affects the left side of the heart first.