CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coronary artery disease mean? 

• CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (noun)
  The noun CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries

  Familiarity information: CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

atherosclerosis; coronary artery disease

Hypernyms ("coronary artery disease" is a kind of...):

arterial sclerosis; arteriosclerosis; coronary-artery disease; hardening of the arteries; induration of the arteries (sclerosis of the arterial walls)

 Context examples 

Data was collected on traditional cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension, diabetes, smoking, dyslipidaemia, and family history of coronary artery disease.

(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

CHF may be caused by coronary artery disease, a heart attack, or high blood pressure.

(CHF, NCI Dictionary)

Chronic heart failure may be caused by coronary artery disease, a heart attack, or high blood pressure.

(Chronic heart failure, NCI Dictionary)

HDL cholesterol concentration is inversely related to the risk of coronary artery disease.

(CETP 1 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

An aa149 polymorphism is associated with higher risk of coronary artery disease and ELAM1 is a diagnostic indicator of glaucoma.

(E-Selectin, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays a role in development of lung and hepatocellular carcinomas, cardiomyopathy, cardiac hypertrophy and coronary artery disease.

(MIR1-1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes MIR1-1 RNA, plays roles in lung and liver cancers, as well as cardiomyopathy, cardiac hypertrophy and coronary artery disease.

(MIR1-1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology associated with the coronary artery disease risk codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Coronary Artery Disease Risk Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Vitamin D also reduces inflammation, an underlying mechanism for obesity related development of coronary artery disease.

(High Doses of Vitamin D Rapidly Reduce Arterial Stiffness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This is called coronary artery disease, and it happens slowly over time.

(Heart Disease in Women, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)