The heart's performance as a pump The heart's function is to pump the blood and circulate it round the body. We assess the heart's performance by measuring how much blood it pumps out each minute.

The heart's performance as a pump The heart's function is to pump the blood and circulate it round the body. We assess the heart's performance by measuring how much blood it pumps out each minute.

The changes in the cardiovascular system associated with aging are a ... can radically affect the measurements of cardiovascular function in the elderly and changes in physical activity can ...

In this article, we discuss the structure and function of cardiac muscle tissue ... to electrical impulses from the nervous system. These cardiac cells work together to produce the rhythmic ...