STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING

The heart is divided into four main chambers : each one is a bag of muscles with walls that are able to contract in order to push blood out. Each wall’s thickness varies according to the amount of work it does. The walls of the left ventricle are the thickest because it does most of […]

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WOMEN’S HEARTS vs MEN’S

The symptoms associated with heart attacks in men and women are not always the same. With women, the chest pains do not tend to conform to the classic descriptions attributed to men. Women are more likely to experience a pain at rest or in their sleep. They might experience pain in parts other than the […]

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