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ASHD Arteriosclerotic heart disease ASHD, is a thickening and hardening of the walls of the coronary arteries... Blood pressure BP... Coronary artery bypass grafting CABG is a type of s

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ASHD Arteriosclerotic heart disease (ASHD), is a thickening and hardening of the walls of the coronary

arteries

Blood pressure (BP)

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a type of surgery that improves blood flow to the heart, is used to treat people who have severe coronary heart

disease (CHD).

CABG

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO A CAD

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a group of diseases that includes: stable angina, unstable angina, myocardial infarction, and sudden coronary death.

HTN (hypertension, high blood pressure) is the sign that the heart and

vessels are being overworked.

International normalized ratio (INR)

stands for a way of standardizing the results of prothrombin time tests, no matter the testing method

A myocardial infarction(MI) is usually caused by a blood clot, which stops the blood

flowing to a part of your heart muscle.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is a minimally invasive

procedure to open up blocked coronary arteries.

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Range Of Motion is the distance that a movable

object may normally travel while properly attached to another

Prothrombin time (PT) is a blood test that measures how long it takes

blood to clot

time it takes your blood to clot