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Congestive Heart Failure occurs when cardiac output is

• not sufficient to maintain blood flow required by the body

• mismatched left to right side of the heart

• insufficient due to fibrous buildup in the liver

• insufficient due to dehydration

Dangers of Hypertension include each of the following, EXCEPT

• Vascular damage within organs

• Ventricular overload leading to arrhythmias and cardiac arrest

• Enlargement of the liver

• Contributes to the development of atherosclerosis

Hypertension is chronically elevated blood pressure. It can be classified as __ or __

• acute or chronic

• essential or nonessential

• essential or secondary

• essential or primary

• primary or tertiary

The difference between BP at systole and diastole is called the _______.

• Pulse pressure

• Rate Pressure Product

• Blood pressure

• Cardiac output

• Stroke volume

With the Baroreceptor Reflex, a fall in BP elicits ↑sympathetic and ↓ parasympathetic activity, resulting in _______.

• ↓ HR and ↓ TPR

• ↑HR and ↓ TPR

• ↓ HR and ↑TPR

• ↑HR and ↑TPR

Vasodilation within blood vessels is stimulated by the paracrine function of each of these, EXCEPT

• ↓O₂ concentrations

• ↓ CO₂ concentrations

• ↓tissue pH

• Release of K+ and paracrine signals

The Bicuspid Valve is referred to clinically as the

• Widow maker

• Mitral valve

• Metric Valve

• Pulmonary Valve

Blood Pressure is equal to Cardiac Output times _______

• Total Peripheral Resistance

• Heart Rate

• Stroke volume

• End Diastolic Volume

• Pulse pressure

The arteries are made up of each of these tissues, EXCEPT

• endothelial tissue

• smooth muscle

• striated muscle

• connective tissue

Cardiac muscle is

• smooth

• striated

• mixed smooth & striated

• irregular