Pulse rate and coronary heart disease (2025)
This series of activities looks at traditional and modern ways of measuring pulse rates. It then focusses on the causes and consequences of the narrowing of the lumen of coronary arteries. Finally, the Framingham Heart Study is used as an example of a long-term epidemiological study which began in 1948 and is still ongoing. This activity introduces the study with a few slides then gives students a chance to analyse...