Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

Coronary artery disease is a type of heart disease involving the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to a build-up of atheromatous plaque in the arteries of the heart. It is the most common of the cardiovascular disease. Coronary artery disease can cause stable angina, unstable angina, unstable angina. myocardial ischemia, and myocardial infarction. The most common symptom is cheat pain or discomfort that occurs regularly with activity, after eating, or at other predictable times this phenomenon is termed angina and is associated with narrowing of the arteries of the heart. Angina also includes cheat tightness, heaviness, pressure, numbness, fullness, or squeezing. Symptoms in females can differ from those in males, and the most common symptom reported by females of all races is shortness of breath. Coronary artery disease is characterized by heart problems that result from atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is a type of arteriosclerosis which is the chronic inflammation of the arteries which causes them to harden and accumulate cholesterol plaques on the artery walls.

   Air pollution, both indoor and outdoor, is responsible for roughly 28% of deaths from coronary artery disease. This varies by region in highly developed areas, this is approximately 10% whereas Southern, East and West Africa, and South Asia, approximately 40% of deaths from CAD can be attributed to unhealth air.