Coronary Artery Disease: Risk Factors
Coronary Artery Disease: Risk Factors
Wake Forest Baptist Interventional Cardiologist Michael A. Kutcher, MD, explains who is at risk for coronary artery disease.
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0.4 -> the highest risk factors are patients
2.48 -> who have a family history of heart
3.919 -> disease because there are hereditary or
6.72 -> genetic factors that can cause coronary
8.88 -> that can have a person develop coronary
10.96 -> disease the biggest risk factor is
12.88 -> cigarette smoking
14.32 -> high blood pressure diabetes
17.92 -> and sometimes just the normal wear and
19.439 -> tear of aging the lining of the artery
21.6 -> is uh should be nice and smooth like a
23.68 -> piece of teflon like a teflon frying pan
27.439 -> these arteries again are very small but
29.519 -> when there's damage to them like a
31.599 -> teflon pan that gets scratched
34.16 -> the body tries to form a protective
37.12 -> layer kind of like oil in this
39.44 -> teflon frying pan
41.6 -> and that protective layer is composed of
43.44 -> cholesterol and deposits
45.36 -> so
46.16 -> the damage to the lining of the arteries
47.76 -> is caused by those factors i mentioned
49.52 -> cigarette smoking high blood pressure
51.12 -> diabetes which can
52.96 -> cause the lining of the artery to
54.8 -> deteriorate
57.039 -> so those risk factors we look at the
58.8 -> other risk factor is
60.48 -> high cholesterol
62.079 -> people can have normal cholesterol but
63.68 -> if they have these damaging factors of
65.68 -> high blood pressure smoking diabetes
68.08 -> they can get a fatty deposit
70.32 -> even in spite of normal cholesterol
72.64 -> some people who have none of these uh
75.119 -> damaging factors have high cholesterol
77.04 -> they can also get a deposit most
78.479 -> americans have a combination of some
80.08 -> degree of injury of the lining of the
81.36 -> artery and some degree of deposition
83.84 -> because of elevated cholesterol
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHslkj3eEo0