Documents Tagged ‘skeletal muscles’
What Counts As High Blood Pressure?
There are three basic types of high blood pressure or by
- Essential or primary hypertension – Nine out of ten people with high
blood pressure have this type and the exact cause is unknown, although it involves many risk factors. - Secondary hypertension – About 10 per cent of people have high blood pressure due to another disease, such as kidney disease, rare endocrine disorders or heart valve problems, or in rare cases it is due to interactions with a drug.
- Malignant hypertension – In this rare type, blood pressure can soar to dangerous levels, requiring urgent hospital treatment. Read the rest of this entry »
Muscles Power
There are about 640 skeletal muscles in the body, forming 
up to half of the body’s weight. Muscles cover the framework of the skeleton Skeletal muscles to give the body its shape. link two bones and pass across the joint between them. Each muscle is made up of muscle fibres that can be up to 30 cm 12 in) long but are thinner than a hair. There are three different types of muscle: Read the rest of this entry »
