PPT-Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease with Pravastatin in Me

James Shepherd MD Stuart M Cobbe MD Ian Ford PhD Christopher G Isles MD A Ross Lorimer MD Peter W Macfarlane Ph D James H McKillop MD and Christopher J Packard D Sc for the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study Group. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2011 Cardiovascular disease Australian facts 2011 Cardiovascular disease series Cat no CVD 53 Canberra AIHW 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics Causes of death 2012 33030 March 2014 3 AIHW National Hospital M A Disease of Affluence . Lesson Objectives. I understand what CHD is. I understand what ‘affluence’ factors contribute to CHD. I know what the distribution of CHD is within the world and the UK. I know what the effects of CHD are . James Shepherd, M.D., Stuart M. Cobbe, M.D., Ian Ford, Ph.D., Christopher G. Isles., M.D., A. Ross Lorimer, M.D., Peter W. Macfarlane, Ph. D., James H. McKillop, M.D., and Christopher J. Packard, D. Sc., for the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study Group. Christopher Whitty. Gresham College 2015. The medical importance of the heart had not been realised in Thomas Gresham’s day (d 1597) . .. De . Motu. . Cordis. . (1628). William Harvey1578-1657 . For much of the last 50 years the heart has grown old before the rest of the body.. Coronary Heart Disease. Affects 16 million people. Causes more than 600,000 death annually. Caused by impaired blood flow to the myocardium. Accumulation of atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary arteries usual cause.. Shaista Malik, MD, PhD, MPH, FACC. Associate Professor. Medical Director, Preventive Cardiology and . Cardiac Rehab Program. Director, Women’s Heart Disease Program. University of California, Irvine. Tanveer Rab, MD, FACC. Perwaiz M. Meraj, MD, FACC. Starting a Complex Coronary . Intervention Program. Does your hospital have the volume?. Buy in from administration and your colleagues. Is there a will to invest? . Presented by: Name goes here. CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. Also known as Coronary Heart Disease. Leading cause of death in men and women. More than 700,000 Americans suffer a heart attack each year. Leading cause of heart failure. Cardiovascular disease heart disease coronary heart disease 151 what146s the di31erence Because these terms sound so similar people use them interchangeably This fact sheet will help you understand ho Coronary heart disease (CHD) is caused by a narrowing of the blood vessels to the heart. This reduces the flow of blood to the heart.. If one of the blood vessels becomes completely blocked, the blood supply to part of the heart stops and is damaged. This is called a heart attack.. 40. % of all deaths in the . U.S.A (nearly . twice the number of deaths caused by all forms of cancer combined).. . The . yearly economic burden of ischemic heart disease (IHD) alone is in excess of $100 billion. . Cardiovascular disease, heart disease, coronary heart disease — what’s the dierence? Because these terms sound so similar, people use them interchangeably. This fact sheet will help you (CHD) is a narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart. . . Coronary heart disease is usually caused by a condition called . atherosclerosis. , which occurs when fatty material and a substance called plaque build up on the walls of your arteries. This causes them to get narrow. As the coronary arteries narrow, blood flow to the heart can slow down or stop. This can cause chest pain (. Heart and circulatory disease is the UK's biggest killer.  In 2001, cardiovascular disease caused 40% of deaths in the UK, and killed over 245,000 people.. . Death rates for heart disease have been falling rapidly in the UK since the late 1970s. Despite this, death rates from CHD in the UK are still amongst the highest in the world.  .