High blood glucose, also called blood sugar, can harm your baby during the first weeks of pregnancy, even before you know you are pregnant. If you have diabetes and are already pregnant, see your doctor as soon as possible to make a plan to manage your diabetes.
These are the only veins in the body that carry fresh, oxygenated blood. Blood leaves the heart from the left ventricle through the artery called the aorta. The aorta has several branches into other arteries that are carrying blood away from the heart and to the body tissues.
Name the major vessels that leave the heart and identify where they lead to: Pulmonary arteries take the blood to the lungs, aorta delivers blood to the entire body Why us the human heart called a double loop? Goes to the lungs for oxygen, then returns to the heart before it is pumped to the rest of the body Three major components for the Cardiovascular System Blood, blood vessels, and the heart