Coronary Disease - Etiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Coronary heart disease of females: lessons learned from nonhuman primates.

30 Aug 2009 The cynomolgus monkey model has contributed to significant advances regarding the understanding of coronary artery atherosclerosis of females. There are currently 8 million women in the United States living with heart disease, necessitating further ... Read more...

Fruits, vegetables and coronary heart disease.

2 Aug 2009 Diet plays an important part in the maintenance of optimal cardiovascular health. This Review summarizes the evidence for a relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and the occurrence of coronary heart disease. This evidence is based on ... Read more...

Use of drug-eluting stents for patients with coronary heart disease.

30 Jul 2009 Although DES effectively reduces restenosis, a small but significant number of patients suffer complications of in-stent thrombosis. Thus, each patient's health history should be determined before recommending DES. Patients must understand the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Coronary Disease - Etiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perioperative safety and bariatric surgery. 3 Nov 2009
• Assessment of structural disease in the coronary microvasculature. 3 Oct 2009
• Risk factors: Lipoprotein(a) and coronary disease-moving closer to causality. 30 Aug 2009
• Coronary heart disease of females: lessons learned from nonhuman primates. 30 Aug 2009
• Ovary-sparing hysterectomy: is it right for your patient? 30 Aug 2009
• Intensive glucose control and cardiovascular outcomes. 13 Aug 2009
• Fruits, vegetables and coronary heart disease. 2 Aug 2009
• Use of drug-eluting stents for patients with coronary heart disease. 30 Jul 2009
• What is new in research? 30 Jul 2009
• Triglycerides and coronary heart disease: have recent insights yielded conclusive answers? 30 Jul 2009
• Exercise: the neglected risk factor and the neglected treatment. 30 Jul 2009
• Shellfish consumption and risk of coronary heart disease. 30 Jul 2009
• Commentary: Facts, opinions and affaires du coeur. 14 Jul 2009
• Commentary: Making risk factors more cost-effective predictors of disease. 14 Jul 2009
• Facts, opinions and affaires du couer. 1975. 14 Jul 2009
• Hot flushes, coronary heart disease, and hormone therapy in postmenopausal women. 29 Jun 2009
• Cardiac pathology of systemic lupus erythematosus. 29 Jun 2009
• The association of pericardial fat with incident coronary heart disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 29 Jun 2009
• Diet and lifestyle influences on risk of coronary heart disease. 29 Jun 2009
• Rare case of blunt chest trauma induced left main and LAD dissection in association with anomalous RCA origin. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Coronary Disease'

Definition: An imbalance between myocardial functional requirements and the capacity of the CORONARY VESSELS to supply sufficient blood flow. It is a form of MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA (insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle) caused by a decreased capacity of the coronary vessels.

Descriptor UI: D003327

Alternative terms: Coronary Disease; Coronary Diseases; Disease, Coronary; Diseases, Coronary; Coronary Heart Disease; Coronary Heart Diseases; Disease, Coronary Heart; Diseases, Coronary Heart; Heart Disease, Coronary; Heart Diseases, Coronary;

Related Mesh Headings: Coronary Artery Bypass; Myocardial Revascularization; Angioplasty, Transluminal, Percutaneous Coronary;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C14.280.647.250; C14.907.585.250;

Technical Notes: general or unspecified; prefer specifics