1. What is blood pressure? What is hypertension?

2. List factors that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.

3. Identify three types of blood cells and their functions.

Question

1. What is blood pressure? What is hypertension?

2.  List factors that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.

3. Identify three types of blood cells and their functions.

solidicecream · Answer

1. is the pressure of the blood in the circulatory system.

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High blood pressure or hypertension is when your blood pressure is 140/90 mmHg or above most of the time.

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go to this website it will help you answer 2 http://www.world-heart-federation.org/cardiovascular-health/cardiovascular-disease-risk-factors/ and 3. is Platelets, Red blood cells, White blood cells.

solidicecream · Answer

and their functions are

Platelets- Which help the blood to clot. Clotting stops the blood from flowing out of the body when a vein or artery is broken.

Red blood cells- Which carry oxygen

White blood cells- Which ward off infection.

solidicecream · Answer

A healthy adult has about 35 trillion blood cells!

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Hope this helps. :D