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BY FAR THE MOST COMMON form of heart disease in the western world is coronary disease – the condition of narrowing of the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle. Coronary artery disease leads to angina, heart attacks, heart failure and premature death – and it is very common. It is also called coronary heart disease (CHD).
The traditional picture of the coronary patient is a middle-aged, overweight male but women are also frequent victims of this disease. Until relatively recently, CHD was the most common cause of death in both sexes, though, for women, it has been overtaken by dementia.
The coronary arteries are the vessels that take blood to your heart muscle. They arise from the root of the aorta, your body’s main artery, and wind around the surface
