A ppt about environmental factors involved in cardiac disease for middle school

1. Healthy Heart:
Future
Physicians
Habits and environmental factors that can
affect your heart

2. Environmental Toxins
• 1) Pollution
• Manufacturing
• Cars
• Chemical waste
• 2) Second hand smoke
• Heart has to beat faster and breathing is more shallow –
even with one cigarette!
• 3) Pesticides and cleaning products
• Some ingredients are used in products that can be harmful
to human health

3. What can you do?
• Avoid smokers!
• Read labels
• Know about your community
• See a problem? Try to make a change!

4. Healthy Habits
• Diet
• Do you eat a lot heart healthy foods?
• And not so good foods in moderation?
• Is the water in your area clean?
• Exercise
• Do you walk a lot?
• American Heart Association says: 30 minutes activity a day!

6. What can you do?
• Walk sometimes instead of taking public transportation
• Go play!
• Try to read the labels of foods!

7. Risk Factors for Heart
Failure
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Smoking
• Physical inactivity
• Overweight
• Diabetes

8. Heart Failure
• The heart can’t keep up with the workload. It is failing
• The body is not getting enough blood and oxygen
• Your heart tries to fix this problem. How?
• Getting larger
• Pumping faster

9. Heart Failure
• This works for awhile, but the heart can’t keep up!
• The heart muscle gets stiff
• The pressure in the arteries builds up – high blood
pressure
• Blood isn’t getting to your body as well
• The body isn’t getting enough oxygen
• Fluid builds up in the lungs

10. Symptoms of Heart
Failure
• Very tired
• Problems breathing
• Coughing or wheezing
• Swelling of the legs, feet, and ankles
• Lack of appetite, feeling sick to stomach
• Increased heart rate

11. Can you tell which X-ray
shows heart failure?

12. How to treat heart
disease
• Lifestyle changes
• Like what?
• Medication
• To reduce fluid retention – diuretic
• To reduce blood pressure
• To relax blood vessels
• To slow heart rate