Coronary heart disease

• Coronary arteries

  Get blocked with fat, less blood flow, less glucose and oxygen to heart cell - heart attack
• Risk factors for CHD (Coronary Heart Disease)

  • Smoking
  • High Blood pressure
  • High cholesterol
  • Not enough exercise
• Atherosclerosis (coronary heart disease) treatment

  1. Placing a stent in the coronary artery

  2. Using drugs called statins