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Heart Health: a Beginner's Guide to Cardiovascular Disease
- Accès libre
- Certificat payant
- 4 séquences
- Niveau Introductif
- Débute le 8 septembre 2019
- Clôture le 12 octobre 2019
Détails du cours
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Your heart beats around 100,000 times a day, pumping blood around your body to deliver oxygen and nutrients, while taking away waste products. When your heart is unhealthy, it can’t perform this vital task so effectively. This can cause significant health problems – heart disease is one of the biggest killers in the UK and an estimated 17 million people die of cardiovascular disease each year worldwide. Heart disease is something that touches many lives, but can be difficult to understand. An introduction to heart health This four-week course aims to improve your knowledge of how the heart works, the effects of heart disease and what you can do to avoid it. We’ll explore the anatomy of the heart, explaining how the circulatory system works and what it does. We’ll then introduce some of the most common cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart failure. We’ll help you understand their effects on the body, why they happen and what can be done to prevent them. We’ll also highlight some wonderful resources from the British Heart Foundation including up to date statistics, patient leaflets and videos describing many of the tests that cardiac patients undergo. In the final week, we’ll examine the risk factors for heart disease and what you can do keep your heart healthy. Hands-on exercises to understand your own heart Each week you’ll have the opportunity to get hands on and do a practical activity, helping you to apply the knowledge you’ll gain on the course, to better understand your own heart. You can find out more about these activities in Natasha Barrett’s post for the FutureLearn blog: “A heart in your hands.”
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Intervenants
- Natasha Barrett
Éditeur
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