| Atherosclerotic heart disease can be thought of as a wide spectrum of disease of the heart. At one end of the spectrum is the individual with no symptoms and streaks within the walls of the coronary arteries. These streaks represent the early stage of atherosclerotic heart disease and do not obstruct the flow of blood. A coronary angiogram performed during this stage of disease may not even show any evidence of coronary artery disease.
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Over many years, these streaks increase in thickness, and will eventually affect the flow of blood through the arteries. As the coronary artery disease progresses, there may be severe restriction of the flow of oxygen-carrying blood. Individuals with this degree of coronary heart disease typically have suffered from one or more heart attacks, and may have signs and symptoms, including symptoms of angina at rest and flash pulmonary edema.
Limitation of blood flow to the heart causes cell starvation because of a lack of oxygen of the myocardial cells. When they die from lack of oxygen, this is called a myocardial infarction (more commonly called a heart attack). It leads to heart muscle damage, heart muscle death, and scarring without heart muscle regrowth.
CHD is associated with smoking, obesity, hypertension and a chronic sub-clinical lack of vitamin C, and a family history of CHD is one of the strongest predictors of CHD. Screening for CHD includes evaluating homocysteine levels, high-density and low-density cholesterol levels and triglyceride levels.
Coronary heart disease is the most common form of heart disease in the Western hemisphere. Prevention includes decreasing cholesterol levels, controlling obesity and high blood pressure, avoiding a sedentary lifestyle, making healthy dietary choices, and stopping smoking.
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