The heart is a vital organ that basically serves as a pump. Now here read about some facts about heart!
- Longest surviving open heart surgery patient is Sadie Purdy.
- Sadie Purdy (UK), who was born in 1924 with a hole in her heart, had open heart surgery on 4 December 1941, aged 17. The six-hour operation of tying a valve, performed by Oswald Tubbs (UK) of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK, was still in its experimental stage, yet she took the record on 7 January 2004, 62 years 34 days later.
- Blue whale has the largest heart in any known living creature. Its heart can weigh upto 1,500 lb (680 kg). An adult can easily crawl through its aorta. It pumps around 15,000 pints.
- Kathy Skubitz is the oldest person on earth who survived an open heart surgery. He undergone this surgery on 10 June 1993 when he was 94 years 129 days old.
- Did you know The strongest, most important muscle in your body is heart?
- According to WomenHeart.org, the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, women are more likely to die of a heart attack than men are.
- Smoking can increase the chances of a heart attack.
- Even birth control can increase the chances of a heart attack. birth control pills are the culprit here.
- 8.6 million women die due to heart disease each year.
- 42% of women who have heart attacks die within 1 year, compared to 24% of men.
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