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2. Atherosclerosis: What Men Need to Know About Plaque ... - AOL

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   Plaque build-up often doesn’t cause symptoms, but it can block blood flow to vital organs like your heart. Coronary artery disease occurs when atherosclerosis affects the arteries supplying ...

3. 8 Common Cardiovascular Diseases for Men & How to Prevent Them

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   The build-up of plaque is also called atherosclerosis. Plaque can limit the supply of blood and oxygen to your heart tissue. ... The most common cause is coronary artery disease. Heart attacks are ...

4. What Is Heart Disease? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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   Coronary Artery Disease. Coronary artery disease, or coronary heart disease, is the most common type of heart disease. It occurs when fatty deposits called plaques build up in your arteries ...

5. Coronary artery disease - Wikipedia

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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. [5] [6] [14] It is the most common of the cardiovascular diseases. [15]

6. BaleDoneen method - Wikipedia

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   [5] The method also uses the coronary artery calcium score (CAC), [5] a measurement of the amount of calcium in the walls of the arteries that supply the heart muscle, using a coronary CT calcium scan of the heart. [6] [7] CAC has been shown to be an independent marker of risk for cardiac events, cardiac mortality, and all-cause mortality. [8]

7. Cardiovascular disease - Wikipedia

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   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 ...