{"title":"Coronary artery disease: Part 1. Epidemiology and diagnosis.","authors":"N Link, M Tanner","doi":"10.1136/ewjm.174.4.257","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in Americans, accounting for about 500,000 deaths every year. The annual incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) is about 1.5 million. As many as 2 million middle-aged men may have silent myocardial ischemia. (1)</p>","PeriodicalId":101371,"journal":{"name":"The Western journal of medicine","volume":"174 4","pages":"257-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071353/pdf/","citationCount":"21","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Western journal of medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ewjm.174.4.257","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 21
Abstract
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in Americans, accounting for about 500,000 deaths every year. The annual incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) is about 1.5 million. As many as 2 million middle-aged men may have silent myocardial ischemia. (1)