Causes

• Causes of CHD: High levels of salt in diet

  
  

  Increases blood pressure
• Causes of CHD: High saturated fats in diet

  
  

  Build up of cholestrol

  Plaque
• Causes of CHD: Smoking

  
  

  Increased blood pressure and heart rate due to nicotine and carbon monoxide preventing oxygen being carried by RBC
• Causes of CHD: High BP

  
  

  increased amount of blood being forced through an increasingly small opening