Aim: To investigate how exercise affects heart rate. Introduction: The heart is rate is how many times the heartbeats in a certain period, normally a minute; this gives the unit bpm (beats per minute). During rest, the heart beats about 70 times a minute in the adult male, while pumping about 5 li...

The Cardiovascular System-Blood Pressure and The ECG Blood pressure is the force of blood distending the arterial walls. Blood pressure is measured in the Brachial artery using a sphygmomanometer, the average resting bp in a normal person is 120/80. The higher number is the systolic blood pres...

Late one afternoon, a lady was driving home in the rush hour traffic. The last thing she needed was a pounding headache. While she was stopped, she dug in her purse for some aspirin to relieve her headache. She chugged it down with the Pepsi sitting by the seat. Her only worry was to relieve h...

Modern day sedentary life styles and increased leisure time has brought modern day illnesses. The effects of a healthy and active lifestyle have positive changes in physiological well being which are due to an interaction of both psychological well-being are due to an interaction of both physiologic...