- Your heart is a muscle about the size of your fist.
- It pumps blood around your body to keep you alive.
- Blood flows to and from the heart through tubes called arteries.
- Sometimes these arteries can get blocked.
- Some people are also born with heart problems.
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Poster – don’t ignore the signs of a heart attack.
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Explains coronary heart disease.
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