Mr Raja Consultant Cardiac Surgeon discusses what coronary artery disease is and what symptoms are most commonly associated with it.
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So what is coronary artery disease? So coronary artery disease essentially is a condition in which you get furring up of the arteries that supply blood to the heart. More technically, it essentially means the buildup of plaque inside the arteries. And what it essentially does is that it reduces the flow of blood to the heart muscle. As a result of this, the patients start experiencing chest pain, which is commonly termed angina. And the reason for it is that you do not have enough blood going down to the muscle, which then is starved of oxygen. And that results in pain, which can sometimes be quite sharp and unbearable and requires as urgent medical attention.
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