Sentences with phrase «major heart chambers»

Over time, the muscle of one of the major heart chambers (the left ventricle) becomes thickened, as the heart has to work harder to pump the blood when there is high blood pressure.

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Our 20 week scan was even more extraordinary in detail, showing all the chambers of the heart and the flow of blood around major organs.

27 percent reduction in conotruncal defects, or severe heart outflow tract abnormalities; 23 percent reduction in coarctation of the aorta — a narrowing of the major artery (the aorta) that carries blood to the body; 15 percent reduction in atrial and ventricular septal defects — holes in the wall separating heart chambers; however, no changes were seen with regard to chromosomally associated defects — abnormality in the number of an infant's chromosomes.

Take, for example, a condition called cardiac hypertrophy, in which the left ventricle, one of the two major chambers of the heart, increases in size and thickness, usually in concert with weight gain and hypertension.

A study of 766 otherwise healthy adolescents showed that those who consumed the least vitamin K1 — found in spinach, cabbage, iceberg lettuce and olive oil — were at 3.3 times greater risk for an unhealthy enlargement of the major pumping chamber of their heart, according to the study published in The Journal of Nutrition.

«Low consumption of vitamin K by adolescents associated with unhealthy enlargement of the heart's major pumping chamber.»

A study of 766 otherwise healthy adolescents showed that those who consumed the least vitamin K1 - found in spinach, cabbage, iceberg lettuce and olive oil — were at 3.3 times greater risk for an unhealthy enlargement of the major pumping chamber of their heart, according to the study published in The Journal of Nutrition.

This results in a reduced volume within the ventricles (major chambers of the heart), so reducing the volume of blood that the heart can pump with each contraction.

In order of prevalence, the major heart problems were pulmonic stenosis (= narrowed vein channel), patent (open) ductus arteriosus, aortic stenosis (= narrowed artery channel) and ventricular septal defect (hole in the heart muscle that separates its two lower chambers).