Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in the United States and the world. Identifying new risk factors and improving the screening methods for CAD are continuously evolving processes. The coronary artery calcification (CAC) score, as measured by computed tomographic coronary angiography (CTCA) is of intense interest to clinicians and investigators because of its potential ...

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is a cardiovascular disease where there plaque buildup in the wall of coronary artery, an artery that supplies heart. This also often referred to as heart or ischemic disease. Globally, CAD has been known most common type and leading cause death. In Malaysia, be Hence, this study aims determine knowledge, attitude, perception among students University Sarawak (UNIM...

Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) has been showed to have high specificity and sensitivity for detecting coronary artery disease (CAD). In Malaysia, national guidelines state that CCTA may be used in low- intermediate pre-test probability (LI-PTP) of CAD, who an equivocal functional test result, are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic with good exercise capacity. Recent evidence su...

Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) frequently experience psychiatric morbidity, such as depression. It's still unknown how pre-existing depression affects mortality in people (CAD). The study's overall goal was to discover among patients disease. detection of psychological problems (depression) individuals CAD has been proven improve prognosis and quality life. who are being treated fo...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) and ischemic heart (IHD) are often indistinctly used terms. Both combined have generated, over the past years, concerns about sex disparities in their presentation. From an epidemiological perspective, females several disadvantages regarding prevention, diagnosis, treatment of CAD. Most general cardiovascular risk factors affect women more frequently, or with a hig...

Coronary artery bypass graft surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention are the treatment options in patients with ischemia and multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD). Comparisons of coronary artery bypass graft and percutaneous coronary intervention have provided conflicting information. For years, experts have debated over the optimal treatment for patients with multivessel CAD. Curren...

the possibility that infectious agents may trigger a cascade of reactions leading to inflammation, atherogenesis and vascular thrombotic events has recently been raised. chlamydia pneumoniae is an infectious agent that has received the most attention with respect to coronary artery disease (cad). to determine the relationship between c. pneumoniae and cad, a case control study was conducted on ...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery disease (CAD) is no more deemed to be an ailment of the 4th or 5th decade; rather an earlier age incidence is not infrequently encountered in our population. However, there are a few data regarding CAD in young adults, and much about its underlying pathology still remains undetermined. The objective of this study was to delineate the coronary arterial disease pattern ...