Description: Diet, Health education, Health services, Electrophysiology, Heart surgery, Non-pharmacological therapy, Prevention.
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Although the incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD) is decreasing in many western countries, especially Finland and the United States, the burden of CAD is rapidly increasing in India. CAD also occurs at relatively young age in Indians and can be severe in nature. There is ongoing research to identify the risk factors for this malignant disease.
The present issue of the journal includes three articles that assess the relationship between the severity of CAD and risk factors. In the first study, the relationship between the risk factors and severity of CAD is studied using coronary angiography in 302 patients. As expected, patients with multiple risk factors were found to have a much severe disease, suggesting the need for preventing the disease at early stages. The second article assesses the correlation between epicardial fat volume and severity o
Another article describes CAD patterns using Gensini score in the rural and city populations in 400 patients undergoing coronary angiography. It is well known that CAD is more common in the urban population than the rural population in India, although the gap is recently narrowing. In this study, the authors observed a higher Gensini score in city populations, indicating increased burden of coronary artery lesions. Gensini score was also reported to be higher in the city population among individuals who are