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Coronary Heart Disease
Alternate Names : Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease, CAD, CHD, Coronary Artery Disease
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Coronary Heart Disease Treatment
The treatment for CHD varies depending on the symptoms and how much the disease has progressed. The general treatments include lifestyle changes, medications, and sometimes surgery.
Lifestyle changes may include: - A weight reduction program
- A low saturated fat / low cholesterol diet to help reduce cholesterol
- Reducing sodium (i.e., salt) ingestion to keep high blood pressure under control
- A routine exercise regimen
- Permanently discontinuing cigarette smoking
Medications may include: - Cholesterol-lowering medication
- Antiplatelet agents such as aspirin, ticlopidine, or clopidogrel to reduce the risk of blood clots
- Glycoprotein IIb-IIIa inhibitors such as abciximab, eptifibatide, or tirofiban, to reduce the risk of blood clots
- Antithrombin agents such as blood-thinners (low-molecular heparin, unfractionated heparin), to reduce the risk of blood clots
- Beta-blockers to decrease heart rate and to lower oxygen consumption by the heart
- Nitrates such as nitroglycerin to dilate the coronary arteries and improve blood supply to the heart.
- Calcium-channel blockers to relax the coronary arteries and all systemic arteries and thus reduce the workload for the heart.
- ACE inhibitors, diuretics, or other medications to lower blood pressure.
Interventions may include:
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Review Date : 3/12/2002
Reviewed By : Elena B. Sgarbossa, MD, Cardiology Department, Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Ctr., Chicago, IL. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network
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