In today's society, people are gaining medical knowledge at quite a fast pace. Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various diseases and disorders are being developed constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease remains the number one killer in the world. The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse, homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden deaths. …
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…how many places the artery is narrowed. It is most suitable when the disease is limited to the left anterior descending artery, but sometimes the plaques are simply too hard, making them impossible to be squashed, in which case a bypass might be necessary. Bibliography Patel, Chandra. FIGHTING HEART DISEASE, Toronto, Macmillan, 1988. Shillingford, J.P. CORONARY HEART DISEASE: THE FACTS, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1982. Tiger, Steven. HEART DISEASE, New York, Julian Messner, 1986. Fitness 106 Final Report