coronary artery disease

American  

noun

1. atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries, reducing the flow of blood to the heart and creating a risk of heart attack or angina.

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coronary artery disease Scientific  

1. Atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries, which can cause angina pectoris or heart attack. A positive family history, hypertension, smoking, diabetes mellitus, and elevated blood lipids increase the risk of developing coronary artery disease.

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Colder months are linked to significantly higher death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and coronary artery disease compared to milder periods.

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Cardiologists favor this approach to stress testing to exclude coronary artery disease because it is relatively inexpensive, it is noninvasive and it yields a good deal of information about the structure of the heart.

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This increase was largely due to more reported "cardiac events," including chest pain, coronary artery disease, and congestive heart failure.

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It includes coronary artery disease, heart failure and stroke, and high cholesterol is one of its major risk factors.

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To examine how well current tools perform, the researchers conducted a retrospective review of 474 patients younger than 66 who had no known coronary artery disease.

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