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    According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Coronary heart disease is a cardiovascular disease caused by a cholesterol substance termed plaque, accumulating within the coronary arteries, which is where oxygen-rich blood is delivered to the heart. Progressively, the flow of oxygen to the heart will suffer if hardened plaque begins to narrow the coronary arteries. Furthermore, blood clots could occur upon the surface of plaque if it ruptures. Large blood clots will incapacitate

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    Pathophysiology Coronary heart disease, also known as coronary artery disease, is a dysfunction of the cardiovascular system in which the heart muscle is damaged as a result of a blocked coronary artery (VanMeter & Hubert, 2014, p.233). This condition includes both partial, temporary cardiac ischemia, or angina pectoris, and total obstruction of a coronary artery, also referred to as myocardial infarction or heart attack (VanMeter & Hubert, 2014, p.233, 239-241). Occlusion of the arteries of the heart results

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    Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in most developed countries including the US. Individuals of all ages, races and backgrounds are prone to this condition. According to a 2015 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States annually, which is one in every four deaths. Moreover, it is the leading cause of death for both women and men with more than half of the deaths resulting in men. The risk factors

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    The role of diet is a very important aspect in the development and prevention of cardiovascular disease. High levels of cholesterol in the blood is strongly associated 3wit coronary artery disease. If you have a high level of cholesterol in your blood, you need to work with your doctor to make it lower, or face a high risk of heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular event. Most circulating cholesterol is produced by the liver and cannot be broken down as easily and by all means you should avoid

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    Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) has been a huge drain the United Kingdom’s resource’s, not only for the long term care and treatment of those with an existing CHD condition, but also for the continuing public education and campaigning to reverse the negative health trends that cause CHD and CHD related maladies. The largest natural cause of death in the developed world are deaths under the CHD umbrella, beating communicable diseases into a cocked hat. CHD is at not an inevitable event. The slow

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    Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is when blood flow to the heart is temporarily or permanently blocked. This is problematic to the wellbeing of one’s heart, because blood transports the materials (nutrients, minerals, oxygen) that are required for heart muscles (or any muscle) to contract and sustain the life of those cells. Caption #1 shows the muscles in the heart that are affected by CHD. Coronary Heart Disease can be caused by the buildup of plaque (cholesterol) in the arteries which direct blood

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    Surgeons utilize the CABG to treat patient they have severe coronary heart disease (CHD). coronary heart disease is a disease which An waxy substance called plaque that mean accumulation inside the coronary arteries. These arteries supply blood with rich oxygen to the heart. Hardened plaque narrows the coronary arteries and decrease blood with rich oxygen to the heart. This may lead to cause chest pain or discomfort to patient called angina. In cause the plaque rupture, a blood clot can form on

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    even diets that advertise the healthiness of the greek diet and how it’ll make you live forever. Contrasting, the statistics of the country tell another story, one of unhealthiness and disease. What are the causes, what could be causing so many people to die from Coronary Heart Disease? When Coronary Heart Diseases main causes are bad habits such as unhealthy diets and smoking, and other bad life choices. Could it be that Greece is in poverty? Could the actual majority of citizens be eating unhealthy

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    Use your textbook to define and describe coronary heart disease (CHD). Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) it is also know as Coronary Artery Disease. It happens when the blood vessels delivering to the heart develop blockage or are narrowed by plaque, which reduces the flow of the blood, oxygen and nutrients supplied to the heart. If this happens the person starts to feel chest pain (also known as angina pectoris) and then it lead to the person to have a heart attack. It is known to be the main factor

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    Coronary heart disease have three clinical types; Non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS), unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI).Among them NSTE-AC have high mortality rate. Correct diagnosis and early management are important to improve clinical cardiac events in patients with Non-STEMI. The manifestation of serious cardiovascular adverse events varies markedly in ACS patients with enzyme markers, typical clinical features and electrocardiogram

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