Related Subjects:
|Atherosclerosis
|Ischaemic heart disease
|Assessing Chest Pain
|ACS: general
|ACS: NSTEMI
|ACS: STEMI
|Hypertension
|Acute Heart Failure
|Chronic Heart Failure
|Cardiac Thrombolysis
In practice however 99% of coronary artery narrowing is due to atherosclerotic disease of the coronary vessels and that is what we shall focus on. Ischaemic heart disease is synonymous with the process of atherosclerosis.
About: Ischaemic myocardium can be due to
Atherosclerosis:pathophysiology
Risk factors
Clinical manifestations of IHD can be summarised as
Risk Factor Details
Age Males >55 years; Females >65 years Lipids Total cholesterol >6.1 mmol/L or LDL-cholesterol >4.0 HDL-cholesterol: Males <1.0 mmol/L and Females <1.2
mmol/L
mmol/L
Smoking Proportionate to Pack years Family history History of cardiovascular disease in first-degree relatives
before age 50 General Obesity, physical inactivity
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Ischaemic heart disease
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