Disease

Circulatory Diseases

Directions: Complete the T-Chart Below. Select 10 diseases from this website: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/organ/circulatory_system.htm List the disease, and write a short summary of what the disease entails.

|Circulatory Disease |Disease Description |
|Heart Disease |Heart disease involves the heart, and usually blood vessels. The different types of heart |
| |disease have an impact on what all it involves specifically. |
|Anemia |This disease means that too few red blood cells are in the blood. This affects the blood, |
| |and essentially any organs that the blood affects. |
|Heart Attack |This includes the heart, and the blood vessels from the heart. Arteries are also involved. |
|Heart Failure |The muscle around the heart is what gets damaged. The lungs then suffer as well as the rest|
| |of the body. |
|Hypertension |Your blood vessels are involved because this is another term for high blood pressure. The |
| |pressure in the blood vessels causes hypertension. |
|Cerebral Arteriosclerosis |This disease directly affects the arteries. This happens when a blockage of the arteries |
| |occurs to the brain. This causes the artery walls to harden. |
|Portal Hypertension |This type of hypertension affects the veins. This is more associated with