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Heart Disease
Title: Heart Disease
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 449 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Heart Disease
INTRODUCTION
In today's society, people are gaining medical knowledge at
quite a fast pace. Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various
diseases and disorders are being developed constantly, and yet,
coronary heart disease remains the number one killer in the
world.
The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol
abuse, homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not
realizing is that coronary heart disease actually accounts for
about 80% of all sudden …showed first 75 words of 449 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 449 total…main artery of the
body, the aorta. The right coronary artery circles the right side
and goes to the back of the heart. The left coronary artery
further divides into the left circumflex and the left anterior
descending artery. These two left arteries feed the front and the
left side of the heart. The division of the left coronary artery
is the reason why doctors usually refer to three main coronary
arteries. (Fig. 2 - Coronary Arteries)
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