What is CAD? Well it is not a car..like my mommy's KITKAD (that's what her vanity license plates say) CAD is the acronym for Coronary Artery Disease. Yup! Pretty fancy eh? If you google CAD the first hit is Control/Alt/Delete...I had to laugh! Well I found a beautiful : ) picture (above) of CAD on the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and a TO THE POINT description of CAD (below). Coronary Artery Disease is the most common disease in the USA...and it is the leading cause of death in both men and women.
The good news....through lifestyle changes, medicine, and /or medical procedures can effctively prevent or treat this disease. I believe that we are natural healers and that by adding the power of healing to our life...Miracles Do Happen!!! You go Raphael!
What Is Coronary Artery Disease? from the website http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov
Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease, is a condition in which plaque (plak) builds up inside the coronary arteries. These arteries supply your heart muscle with oxygen-rich blood.
Plaque is made up of fat, cholesterol (ko-LES-ter-ol), calcium, and other substances found in the blood. When plaque builds up in the arteries, the condition is called atherosclerosis (ATH-er-o-skler-O-sis).
Atherosclerosis
Illustration of a normal artery with normal blood flow and an artery with plaque buildup.
Figure A shows a normal artery with normal blood flow. Figure B shows an artery with plaque buildup.
Desiree's heart note: Since my MI and researching heart disease....I read somewhere that plaque can start building up in our arteries as early in life as the age of 8 years old! So...assisting your children and grand children at a young age to be conscious of what they eat ....is a very loving thing to do!
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