Predisposing factors like age, sex, and heredity combined with precipitating factors such as diet, lifestyle, hypertension and diabetes can cause the accumulation of cholesterol in artery walls. This forms plaques that protrude into arteries and damage endothelial cells, causing scars that narrow blood vessels. Decreased blood flow results in ischemic myocardium and ultimately myocardial infarction, reducing cardiac output and oxygen saturation throughout the body.
Predisposing factors like age, sex, and heredity combined with precipitating factors such as diet, lifestyle, hypertension and diabetes can cause the accumulation of cholesterol in artery walls. This forms plaques that protrude into arteries and damage endothelial cells, causing scars that narrow blood vessels. Decreased blood flow results in ischemic myocardium and ultimately myocardial infarction, reducing cardiac output and oxygen saturation throughout the body.
Predisposing factors like age, sex, and heredity combined with precipitating factors such as diet, lifestyle, hypertension and diabetes can cause the accumulation of cholesterol in artery walls. This forms plaques that protrude into arteries and damage endothelial cells, causing scars that narrow blood vessels. Decreased blood flow results in ischemic myocardium and ultimately myocardial infarction, reducing cardiac output and oxygen saturation throughout the body.