Do You Know?
Facts About Vascular Health
- Your blood vessels, stretched end to end, could circle the earth more than twice.
- Your heart beats 100,000 times a day.
- The lymphatic system is part of the vascular system.
- Your heart creates enough pressure that it could squirt blood a distance of 30 feet.
- Arteries carry blood away from your heart.
- Veins carry blood back to your heart.
- Impotence is a vascular disease.
- The vascular system plays an important part in respiration, digestion, excretion and temperature control.
