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
disease process underlying IHD): age, male sex, hyperlipidaemia (high cholesterol and high fats in the blood), smoking, hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, and the family history.
Signs and symptoms
Ischaemic heartdisease may be present with any of the following problems:
Angina pectoris (chest pain on exertion, in cold weather or emotional situations)
Acute chest pain: acute c
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
@ Showed lesions and narrowing consistent with CHD in 77% of
the soldiers whose average was 22 years.
@ Studying the development and progression of coronary artery lesions in infants and chlidren support the view that atherosclerosis begins in childhood and progresses slowly
Into adulthood.
@Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth(PDAY): early atherosclerotic lesions
Heart disease prevention
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