amazing facts about your heart

Amazing Facts About Your Heart

Random human heart facts, including surprising statistics, revolutionary discovers, and diseases.
11. Fact 11
It has even been found in 3,000 years old mummies.
12. Fact 12
Happiness, lack of stress, exercise, and a healthy diet will keep your heart healthy.
13. Fact 13
The number of heart attacks peaks on Christmas Day, followed by December 26th, and then New Year.
14. Fact 14
You are also more likely to have a heart attack on Monday morning than any other time.
15. Fact 15
A normal heart valve is about the size of a half dollar.
16. Fact 16
The first pacemakers plugged into the wall.
17. Fact 17
Because the heart has its own electrical impulse it can continue to beat even when separated from the body, as long has it has a supply of oxygen.
18. Fact 18
In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann examined the inside of his own heart by threading a catheter into his arm vein. This was the first cardiac catheterization, a now common procedure.
19. Fact 19
On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard of South Africa transplanted a human heart into the body of Louis Washansky. Although the recipient lived only 18 days, it is considered the first successful heart transplant.
20. Fact 20
Grab a tennis ball and squeeze it tightly that how hard the beating heart works to pump blood.