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What causes blood to flow through the heart?

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The blood flows to and from the heart primarily because of the relaxing and contracting of the heart muscle. Muscles throughout the body also exert pressure on blood vessels to literally push blood to the heart.


the relaxing and contracting of the heart muscle
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