KIN 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Subclavian Vein, Metatarsal Bones, Internal Jugular Vein

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Major components of the cardiovascular system: heart, creates the pressure that drives blood through vessels, right side pumps blood low in oxygen to lungs. Left side pumps blood throughout systemic circulation: blood vessels, conduits for blood. Characteristics or behaviors that increase the likelihood or disease development. Non-modifiable: age older vs. lifestyle, sex hormones, family history. Modifiable risk factors: cigarette smoking, hypertension, high blood cholesterol, obesity and overweight, high blood ldl levels, a positive is high hdl levels. Cholesterol: a type of lipid as a sterol, needed by the body to build cell membranes, used to form. Lipoproteins: transport other lipids throughout the body, include ldl, and hdl. Ldl (low-density lipoprotein) bad: transports cholesterol to body cells, often loses cholesterol, which accumulates on artery walls. Hdl (high-density lipoprotein) good: transports cholesterol lost by ldl back to the liver, cleans up after ldl.

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