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Coronary Heart Disease Question and answers correctly solved 2024 Kinds of Cardiovascular Disease - correct answer Atherosclerosis Coronary artery disease Stroke High blood pressure Peripheral arterial disease Rheumatic heart disease Congenital heart defects Valvular heart disease Congest...

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Coronary Heart Disease
Kinds of Cardiovascular Disease - correct answer ✔Atherosclerosis
Coronary artery disease
Stroke
High blood pressure
Peripheral arterial disease
Rheumatic heart disease
Congenital heart defects
Valvular heart disease
Congestive heart failure


Black Men and Heart attacks - correct answer ✔- black men have first heart
attacks earlier than white men, black women and white women


CHD & Deaths - correct answer ✔- CHD contributes to the highest number
of deaths from cardiovascular disease


CHD and Deaths (white & black females) - correct answer ✔- CHD is highest
cause of death for white and black females
- higher than stroke, lung cancer, and breast cancer


CHD & men - correct answer ✔- highest cause of death for men


Cardiomyopathy - correct answer ✔- is the measurable deterioration of the
function of the myocardium (the heart muscle) for any reason, usually leading
to heart failure

, Atrial fibrilation - correct answer ✔- irregular heartbeat in atrium
- most common arrythmia (irregular heartbeat)


Age & CHD - correct answer ✔- highest among men and women of 80+
- risk and prevalence increases with age
- men higher than women


Coronary heart disease - correct answer ✔- term used to identify several
disorders that reduce the blood supply to the heart muscle. This impairment of
circulation is the result of atherosclerosis.


Most common emergent clinical manifestations of coronary atherosclerosis -
correct answer ✔- are angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and sudden
death


CHD - correct answer ✔- leading cause of death in USA today
- represents over half of the cardiovascular disease deaths and over one- fifth
of the deaths from all causes.
- Over 2 million hospital admissions each year involve the diagnosis of CHD.


Pathophysiology - correct answer ✔- Atherosclerosis is a slowly progressive
disease condition in which the inner layers of the artery walls become thick,
irregular and rigid.
- With the progression of atherosclerosis, the arteries narrow, blood flow is
decreased, and there is greater likelihood that an atherosclerotic plaque will
disrupt, creating a traveling blood clot.

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