Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common cause of heart attacks and one of the leading causes of death in the Western world.
| CAD is atherosclerosis of the blood vessels that supply blood
to the heart. Atherosclerosis is the medical term meaning that there is
fat sticking to the inside of your blood vessels. |
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The fat causes a narrowing of the blood vessels. This means that there is less
room for the blood to travel, and therefore less blood gets to the places it
needs to. Sometimes blood vessels can even completely close due to CAD, and
no blood can get through.
Blood vessels supply blood to the heart, just as they supply blood to every
other organ in the body. If there is fat on the inside of these blood vessels
than this is called CAD.
