HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Coronary Artery Disease, American Heart Association, Coronary Circulation
Document Summary
Heart disease, stroke, and caner now rank high among the nation"s leading causes of death. Chronic nature of many of these disease means that they can deplete a community"s resources quite rapidly. Multicausation disease model a visual representation of the host together with various internal and external factors that promote and protect against disease. Environmental factors : physical latitude, climate, and physical geography of where one lives. Coronary heart disease (chd) is the number one killer of americans. 83 million american have one or more types of cvd which includes all diseases of the circulatory system. American heart association lists nine types of cvds: chd causes more than half of cvd deaths. Characterized by damage to the coronary arteries, the blood vessels that carry oxygen rich blood to the heart muscle. Damage to these vessels usually evolves from the condition known as atherosclerosis narrowing of blood vessels.
