The HeartINTRODUCTIONIn today's society, people are gaining medical knowledge at quite a fast pace. Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various diseases and disorders are being developed constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease remains the number one killer in the world. The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse, homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden …showed first 75 words of 2413 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2413 total…a result, the tiny blood vessels that nourish the walls of medium-size arteries throughout the body, including the coronary arteries, become defective. These microscopic vessels become blocked, impeding the delivery of blood to the lining of the larger arteries, causing them to deteriorate, and artherosclerosis results. Hypertension High blood pressure directly injures the artery lining by! several mechanisms. The increased pressure compresses the tiny vessels that feed the artery wall, causing structural c ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**