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Human Body
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The Human Heart
๐ฌ๐งEnglandยท1628
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๐ซThe Human Heart
Pumps 5 litres of blood per minute; beats 100,000 times a day; the engine of life
Key Facts
- 1Heart pumps ~5 litres/min at rest; beats 60โ100 times/min; 100,000 beats/day; 2.5 billion beats/lifetime
- 2Four chambers: right/left atria and ventricles; four valves regulate blood flow
- 3Heart disease is the #1 cause of death globally (17.9 million/year); India has the world's highest heart disease burden
๐ก William Harvey's 1628 discovery that blood circulates in a loop (not a tide) was the most important advance in medicine since Hippocrates
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