coronary arteries
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The Northern Trust say they currently offer it to heart failure patients who have had an ischaemic event, which is disruption of blood flow to the heart caused by disease of the coronary arteries.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024
"Our results indicate that extreme evening chronotype may be linked not only to poorer cardiovascular health in general, but also more specifically to calcification in the coronary arteries calcification and atherosclerosis," Mio Kobayashi Frisk says.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023
Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Iranian human rights activist who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, began a hunger strike on Monday, after she was denied hospital treatment for two blocked coronary arteries, her family said.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2023
Nor do I look forward to the likely open-heart surgery I will have for my now-70 percent calcified and blocked coronary arteries.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023
The same causes which have produced general arteriosclerosis have also produced sclerosis of the coronary arteries, and probably the lessened blood supply accounts for much of the atrophy of the heart muscle.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
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