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Content summary The market system: • The economic problem • Economic assumptions • Demand, supply and market equilibrium • Elasticity • The mixed economy • Externalities Business economics: • Production • Productivity and division of labour • Business costs, revenues and profit • Business competition • The labour market • Government intervention

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BLOOD IS MADE
OUTOF: PLASMA WHITEBLOOD CELLS
these cells are specialised, they
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carbon respiring
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HEART RATE
CORONARY HEARTDISEASE BLOOD VESSELS ARTERIES:
natural heart rate is controlled by a group of cells build
plaque fatty material up inside
called the pacemaker. in CHD, layers
of (a
carries blood at high pressure awayfrom
Arteries
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mainly form from
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the coronary arteries plaques are cholesterol. heart.
-

pacemaker coordinates the contraction of heart muscle
cholesterol is found in
·
veins ·have thick walls which containselastic
a regulate heart rate.
·
dietary cholesterol (from animal products) · capillaries fibres
initiate a contraction
-
send out electrical impulses which lumen
·
cholesterol synthesised by the liver ·have a narrow
in the cardiac muscle.

VEINS: ADAPTION:
Buildup of in the coronary arteries narrow
EXCERCISING plaque
carry blood at low pressur thick walls & elastic fibre:to withstand

aeronaryarterybecomes Partialare
since there is build up, the
a
hear the and maintain BP

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high pressure of blood
during exercise, the cells of the muscle repire blocked. It loses its elasticity
as itrecoils afterblood has passed
more in order to produce energy for muscle
reduced, through.
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contraction.
. contain valves narrow lumen:mantain high pressure.


demand our this
anincreasein respiration
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slow speed.
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d waste products needed to be . will not
·
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at
pressure within tissues
removed. ADAPTIONS:
have 1 cell thick walls
large lumen:reduces resistance to
blood flow under low pressure

blood flow is slow


valves:Prevent presents of
and pumped FACTORS CHD the
therefore, heartrate volume out RISK OF


increases to deliver
oxygen & glucose ·
obesity APTY fast a nd easy diffusion
blood againstarethe
high bloodpressureincreasesforce
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production of Adrenaline a hormone, increases
the heartrate. This is known as a fight or flight'

increasebuildtheteaand
high cholesterol (speeds up
response.
·
smoking (chemicals causes

bp. Carbon monoxide reduces
oxygen carrying capacity
of RBC)

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