What is Coronary heart disease?
What is Coronary heart disease?
- Coronary heart disease: Disease affecting the heart's arteries (narrowed arteries).
- Coronary heart disease: Hardening of the arteries of the heart is called coronary artery
disease. (Source: excerpt from Coronary Artery Disease (Easy to Read): NWHIC)
- Coronary heart disease: a stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Coronary heart disease: Introduction
Types of Coronary heart disease:
Broader types of Coronary heart disease:
How many people get Coronary heart disease?
Prevalance of Coronary heart disease: estimated 13,200,000 in the USA 2001 (American Heart Association, 2004)
Prevalance Rate of Coronary heart disease: approx 1 in 20 or 4.85% or 13.2 million people in USA [about data]
Incidence (annual) of Coronary heart disease: estimated 1.2 million new or recurrent coronary attacks in the USA 2004 (American Heart Association, 2004)
Incidence Rate of Coronary heart disease: approx 1 in 226 or 0.44% or 1.2 million people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Coronary heart disease:
Some 7 million
Americans suffer from coronary heart disease (CHD), the most common form of
heart disease. (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, coronary heart disease: NHLBI)
How serious is Coronary heart disease?
Complications of Coronary heart disease:
see complications of Coronary heart disease
Deaths for Coronary heart disease: 502,189 deaths in the USA 2001 (American Heart Association, 2004)
What causes Coronary heart disease?
Causes of Coronary heart disease: see causes of Coronary heart disease
Cause of Coronary heart disease: Narrower coronary arteries near the heart.
Risk factors for Coronary heart disease:
see
risk factors for Coronary heart disease
What are the symptoms of Coronary heart disease?
Symptoms of Coronary heart disease:
see symptoms of Coronary heart disease
Complications of Coronary heart disease:
see complications of Coronary heart disease
Coronary heart disease: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Coronary heart disease.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Coronary heart disease.
How is it treated?
Doctors and Medical Specialists for Coronary heart disease: General Practitioner, Cardiologist, Cardiac surgeon, Cardiothoracic surgeon, Vascular surgeon, General surgeon, Anaesthetist, Neurosurgeon, Neurologist, Physiotherapist, Physiologist, Pulmonologist, Psychologist, Dietician, Diabetologist
;
see also doctors and medical specialists for Coronary heart disease.
Treatments for Coronary heart disease:
see treatments for Coronary heart disease
Prevention of Coronary heart disease:
see prevention of Coronary heart disease
Research for Coronary heart disease:
see research for Coronary heart disease
Society issues for Coronary heart disease
Costs of Coronary heart disease: $111.8 billion with $58.2b direct, $8.4b morbidity, $45.b mortality (NHLBI 2002)
Cost statistics for Coronary heart disease:
The following are statistics from various sources about costs and Coronary heart disease:
- Over 1.7 billion pounds per year in the UK (The British Heart Foundation, 2004)
- $894 million in direct health system costs in Australia 1993-94 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003)
- $630 million in direct health system costs in Australia 1993-94 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003)
- $1,572 million in hospital costs in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
- $263 million in physician costs in Canada 1993 (Health Canada)
- more statistics...»
Hospitalizations for Coronary heart disease: 2,262,000 (NHLBI 1999)
Physician office visits for Coronary heart disease: 10,070,000 (NHLBI 1999)
Organs Affected by Coronary heart disease:
Organs and body systems related to Coronary heart disease include:
Name and Aliases of Coronary heart disease
Main name of condition: Coronary heart disease
Other names or spellings for Coronary heart disease:
CHD, Coronary Artery Disease, CAD
Atherosclerosis, Arteriosclerosis, Arterial sclerosis, Hardening of the arteries, Induration of the arteries
Source - WordNet 2.1
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