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describe how the volume of blood returning to the heart and entering ventricles affect cardiac output

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Greater end-diastolic volumes of blood returned to the heart, increase the passive stretching of the heart muscles. This in turn results in the ventricles contracting with more force- a phenomenon called the Frank-Starling law of the heart.

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