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Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), or ischemic heart disease (IHD), [13] is a type of heart disease involving the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to a build-up of atheromatous plaque in the arteries of the heart.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. [3] CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g. angina, heart attack), heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, carditis, aortic aneurysms, peripheral artery disease ...
Myocardial infarction; Other names: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart attack: A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, causing catastrophic thrombus formation, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream to the heart muscle.
Directorate General of Disease Prevention and Control (Indonesian: Direktorat Jenderal Pencegahan dan Pengendalian Penyakit) Secretariat of Directorate General; Directorate of Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control (Indonesian: Direktorat Pencegahan dan Pengendalian Penyakit Tidak Menular)
Robert Coleman Atkins (October 17, 1930 – April 17, 2003) was an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Diet, which requires close control of carbohydrate consumption and emphasizes protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary calories in addition to a controlled number of carbohydrates from vegetables.
Tachycardia, also called tachyarrhythmia, is a heart rate that exceeds the normal resting rate. [1] In general, a resting heart rate over 100 beats per minute is accepted as tachycardia in adults. [1]
The general structure of a cardiac glycoside consists of a steroid molecule attached to a sugar and an R group. [4] The steroid nucleus consists of four fused rings to which other functional groups such as methyl, hydroxyl, and aldehyde groups can be attached to influence the overall molecule's biological activity. [4]
18091 Ensembl ENSG00000183072 ENSMUSG00000015579 UniProt P52952 P42582 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_004387 NM_001166175 NM_001166176 NM_008700 RefSeq (protein) NP_001159647 NP_001159648 NP_004378 NP_032726 Location (UCSC) Chr 5: 173.23 – 173.24 Mb Chr 17: 27.06 – 27.06 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Homeobox protein Nkx-2.5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NKX2 ...