BB H 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Coronary Artery Disease, Atheroma, Angina Pectoris
14 Dec 2016
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Cardiovascular disease: cardiovascular disease, refers to a variety of diseases of the heart, blood vessels, or both, hypertension is most common, cad and stroke contribute most to, includes coronary artery disease, hypertension, stroke mortality. Iii: leading cause of death, 1 in 3 deaths. Pathophysiology: often associated with atherosclerosis, slow process of buildup of atheromatous plaques, initial inflammatory response > accumulation of white blood cells, cholesterol, triglycerides, etc. Sometimes, you will see a victim have symptoms on one side of the body. This is because the opposite side of the brain was deprived of oxygen: symptoms include losing vision, functions, etc. Let"s take these individuals, all of who are from japanese descent (lowest risk for cvd). : was exposure to a western culture going to increase risk for. Cvd: they compared rates between all and found that individuals who were in japan had lowest rates. They wanted to see if they had any evidence of atherosclerosis.
