Health Sciences

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• Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

  Diabetes in which little or no insulin is produced.
• Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

  Diabetes where body cells resist insulin.
• White sugar

  Granulated sucrose.
• Wholegrains

  Grains containing all essential parts of the seed.
• Afterload

  Pressure the heart exerts to eject blood during ventricular contraction; recorded as systolic pressure.
• Aneurysm

  Localized swelling of an artery wall.
• Angina

  Chest pain due to inadequate blood supply to the heart.
• Aorta

  Main artery supplying oxygenated blood to the body.
• Arteriosclerosis

  Thickening/hardening of artery walls.
• Artery

  Blood vessel carrying blood through the body.
• Asymptomatic

  No symptoms present.
• Atherosclerosis

  Fatty deposits in artery walls.
• Atria

  Upper chambers of the heart.
• Blood clot

  Coagulated mass of blood cells and fibrin.
• Blood vessel

  Tube carrying blood in the body.
• Vasoconstriction

  Narrowing of blood vessels.
• Carbon

  Chemical element (C).
• Cachexia

  Severe muscle and weight loss syndrome.
• Cardiac cycle

  Sequence of heart contraction and relaxation.
• Cardiac output

  Blood pumped by heart per minute.
• Cerebrovascular accident

  Stroke caused by interrupted brain blood flow.
• Circulation

  Movement of blood through body.
• Congestive heart failure

  Heart cannot pump effectively.
• Coronary artery disease

  Narrowing of heart arteries.
• Diastole

  Heart relaxation phase.