Some facts about heart

Some facts about heart

•Women hearts beat faster than men.

• Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before.

• The human heart weighs less than a pound.

• The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.

• The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893.

• Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack.

• The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.

• The human heart beat roughly 35 million times a year.

• Olive oil can help in lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of heart complications.

• In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.

• In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa.

• People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.

• Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 AM.

• The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.

• During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.

• In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.

• For humans the normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute.

• At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions.

• Every day 2,700 people die of heart disease.

Electrical conduction system of the heart