Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

1. Demographics

2. Etiology

3. Treatment

4. Men

5. Woman

6. Every ethnicity

7. Damage or injury to an inner layer of a coronary artery

8. Possibly caused by: smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and sedentary lifestyle

9. Lifestyle changes

10. quit smoking, eat healthy, exercise, lose weight,reduce stress

11. Medications

12. cholesterol modifying, aspirin, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, ranolazine, nitroglycerin, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers

13. Procedures

14. angioplasty, stent replacement, coronary artery bypass

15. Trends

16. Disease Rates

17. Prevention

18. CAD on the rise

19. Annual death is declining

20. Leading cause of death is cardiovascular diseases- CAD being the leading cause of cardiovascular disease death

21. CAD responsible for 1 out of 7 deaths

22. Every 40 seconds someone has a heart attack

23. Control blood pressure, control cholesterol, don't smoke, control diabetes, exercise, eat healthy, maintain healthy weight, reduce stress, eat Omega 3's