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A person has single vessel coronary disease since 2000, now 2008 an still single vessel, 15months later severe triple, how unlikely is this ?

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Depends: Smoker? High blood lipids? Hypertension? Obese? Sedentary? CAN happen,

Dr Rasak and another doctor agreed

Answered 6/8/2014

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