Coronary Heart Disease

Question 1

Australian statistics

Answer 1

-2018= 2 people died of coronary heart disease each hour

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Question 2

What does it affect?

Answer 2

• a coronary artery clogs and narrows because of a buildup of plaque.
• reducing blood flow and oxygen to heart muscles

Question 3

What is plaque?

Answer 3

-substance of far, cholesterol and other materials

Question 4

What are coronary arteries?

Answer 4

• blood vessels that supply your heart muscle with its blood.

Question 5

What puts you at risk for coronary heart disease?

Answer 5

diabetes
high cholesterol/high blood pressure
physically inactive/overweight 
ethnicity 
genetics

Question 6

Treatments for tis

Answer 6

Beta blocker
angioplasty
Coronary artery by pass graft surgery

Question 7

Beta blockers

Answer 7

Beta blocker: lower blood pressure.

Question 8

Angioplasty

Answer 8

special Galton widen a narrowed or blocked artery restore blood flow to the heart. Stent ( small mesh tube) put into arthritis to keep it open.

Question 9

Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery

Answer 9

Cardiologist take blood vessel from another part of your body and use it to make a new pathway for blood to flow around a blocked artery.

Question 10

Symptoms

Answer 10

chest pain

• shortness of breath
• pain throughout the body
• feeling faint
• feeling sick/nausea
• so,e people why not even symptoms and realise they have it after a heart attck/ angina