Relation Between High Blood Pressure & Heart Attacks

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Relation Between High Blood Pressure & Heart Attacks

What is a Heart Attack?:

Your heart is a muscle. Like all muscles in your body, it can only work properly if it has

    A constant supply of oxygen
    Reserves of energy and nutrients
    A way to remove harmful waste products

When any of these things are interrupted, the heart can be damaged and lose its ability to effectively pump blood. A heart attack happens when, for various reasons, the supply of oxygen to the heart is interrupted.
Supplying the Heart With Oxygen:

The heart is supplied with oxygen by a special group of blood vessels, called the coronary vessels. Because there are hundreds of millions of cells in the heart, and they all need oxygen, there is a specialized way that each cell gets the oxygen it needs.
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