Coronary artery disease narrows the blood vessels that supply the heart with oxygen-rich blood due to plaque buildup. This decreases blood flow and can cause chest pain, shortness of breath, or heart attack. Diagnosis involves physical exams, blood tests, imaging tests like angiograms and stress tests. Treatment includes lifestyle changes like quitting smoking, medication to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol, and procedures like angioplasty, stents or bypass surgery to reopen blocked vessels.

2.  This disease Narrows the blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich
blood to your heart. This happens because of plaque build up in the
vessels.
 The coronary arteries become damaged or diseased making it hard
for blood flow to occur.
 The decreased blood flow can cause chest pains or angina,
shortness of breath or even worse a heart attack.

3.  Chest pain or discomfort (angina)
 Shortness of breath
 Fast heartbeat (tachycardia)
 Weakness
 Nausea

4.  Pain in stomach
 Increased sweating
 Back or jaw pain in woman
 Heaviness and weight on chest

5.  First the doctor will do a normal physical exam to see the patients
health and risk factors, seeing if the patient smokes and their daily
diet.
 Blood pressure test
 Cholesterol test
 C-reactive Protein Test (CRP)
 Coronary calcium exam
 Electrocardiogram (EKG) (ECG)

6.  Chest x-ray
 Blood test
 Exercise Electrocardiogram (Stress Test)
 Cardiac Perfusion scan
 Echocardiogram and stress Echocardiogram
 Ultrasound
 Coronary angiogram

7.  Quit Smoking
 Healthy diet
 Aspirin Exercise daily
 Keep stress down
 Control your cholesterol and blood pressure.

8.  Aspirin is recommended. It thins your blood which
makes it easier to pass through the vessels in the heart.
 Beta-blockers- Slow your heart beat and lower your
blood pressure
 Statins- lower Cholesterol

9.  Nitrates- relieve chest pain
 Calcium channel blockers- slow your heart rate and
lower blood pressure
 Angiotensin-converting enzyme Inhibitors (ACE)-
reduce blood pressure, and reduce the strain on your
heart

10.  Coronary artery bypass graft surgery- a doctor connects
a healthy artery or vein from another part of your body
to the blocked coronary artery. The grafted artery goes
around the blocked part of the artery. The bypass
provides a new pathway for blood to your heart.

11.  Angioplasty- this procedure opens the blocked blood
vessel so that blood can flow through it more easily.
 Stints are also placed inside the blocked vessels to
open them more so blood can flow through.

12.  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/coronary
arterydisease.html
 http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/coronary-
artery-disease/DS00064
 http://www.webmd.com/heart-
disease/guide/heart-disease-coronary-artery-
disease