What patients are effected by coronary artery disease?

Any type: Coronary artery disease can affect patients as young as 18 or as old as 100 years. Risk factors include cigarettes, diabetes, hypertension, family history of coronary disease, and elevated cholesterol. The more of these risk factors you have, the earlier in life you are likely to experience the disease.

Potentially all: Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in the us, and potentially everyone can be affected. You need to visit with your physician to better address your particular risks.

Vast Majority: Atherosclerosis (known to start ~age 7), is dominant human behavior yet typically remains asymptomatic for decades because the disease is in the walls & the arteries enlarge, compensating for the disease. It is plaque ruptures, debris downstream & clots which produce the blood flow obstructions, heart muscle damage & death. Stress tests overwhelmingly miss the disease until after it is advanced.