Estimating CHD Risk
The National Cholesterol Education Program has developed charts for estimating the actual likelihood that one will develop CHD within the next 10 years.
Table 8.4 for adult males (p269), Table 8.5 for adult females (p270)
The ATP 3rd guidelines recommend that this assessment could be used for reducing CHD risk for persons with 2 or more CHD risk factors.
The variab
An issue about CHD
Junk food elevates the attack rate of
diabetes and coronary heartdisease
Minesota University in America Professor Andrew O. Odegaard
Conducting a survey of Chinese Singaporean
When having fast food more than twice in a week,
the attack rate of diabetes is 27% and the death rate
of coronary disease is elevated 56%
compared with no eating fast food at all.
The prof
Heartdisease
Cardiovascular(heart) disease
- a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels
- the biggest cause of deaths worldwide
(Wikipedia)
Examples :
Coronary heartdisease
Cardiomyopathy - diseases of cardiac muscle
Hypertensive heartdisease - diseases of the heart secondary to high blood pressure
Heart failure
Cor pulmonale - a failure of the right sid
1. Heartdisease & cardiac enzymes
1.1 heartdisease
Team#5 has had researches about diagnosis of cardiovascular disease using cardiac marker (cardiac enzyme). Cardiovascular disease (heartdisease) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels (arteries and veins). Cardiovascular diseases remain the biggest cause of deaths worldwide, through over the last two decades, cardio
Ⅰ. Ischaemic heartdisease
Ischaemic heartdisease
Ischaemic heartdisease (IHD), or myocardial ischaemia, is a disease characterized by ischaemia (reduced blood supply) of the heart muscle, usually due to coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries). Its risk increases with age, smoking, hypercholesterolaemia (high cholesterol levels), diabetes, and hypertension (hig
Heart disease prevention
심장질환과 효소공학(영문)
심장질환과 효소공학(영문)
