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Diet in the epidemiology of coronary heart disease.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Shaper, A. Gerald |
| Copyright Year | 1972 |
| Abstract | The term coronary heart disease (CHD) includes three distinct but overlapping syndromes in middle-age : myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, and sudden death. Virtually all CHD occurs on the basis of severe atherosclerosis, although not every person with severe atherosclerosis necessarily suffers from CHD. We are thus concerned to understand both the aetiology and pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, and the pathogenesis of CHD, which can be regarded as a complication of severe atherosclerosis. Fig. I depicts a hypothesis concerning CHD and in the main it presents the ‘nutritional-metabolic’ concept of atherosclerosis and CHD (Stamler, 1967). In this |
| Starting Page | 297 |
| Ending Page | 302 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0029665172000576 |
| PubMed reference number | 4579352v1 |
| Volume Number | 31 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Journal | The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Angina Pectoris Atherosclerosis Choline Dehydrogenase, Mitochondrial Coronary heart disease Heart Diseases Mental Suffering Myocardial Infarction Study of epidemiology Sudden death Syndrome |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
