Coronary vessels So, coronary artery and vein.

Yes. Coronary.

He's dying. Coronary blockage.

Cause coronary thrombosis, acute.

So this formation of these plaques we call atherosclerosis.

Coronary heart disease would be redundant, because coronary is already referring to the heart.

And so specifically you might hear about a coronary artery, or a coronary vein, but together you can call them coronary blood vessels.

And these are called coronary arteries.

If this isn't a coronary... well...

He's got a beer belly in his coronary arteries.

There's subclinical atherosclerosis, subclinical hardening of the arteries, obviously linked to heart attacks, potentially.

That's what we call coronary artery disease, or heart disease.

It also dilates the coronary arteries, so it stops angina.

And let me actually show you where the blood vessels come from. These are called coronary vessels I just write the word coronary here.

Well, these vessels, all of them, together are called coronary vessels.

Actually in people with atherosclerosis they have compensation so they actually start looking a little different.

So these coronary blood vessels are actually serving the heart muscle itself.

This right over here is called the left coronary artery or LCA.

So this causes coronary artery disease, which is sometimes called heart disease.

His heart was fine then. A coronary can hit anybody, any time.

The fact is, I went there to recuperate from a coronary attack.

The syndrome, the female pattern now is called microvascular coronary dysfunction, or obstruction.

A means to determine if there's a complete blockage of a coronary artery.

Officially, they're characterizing that it was a coronary brought on by systemic shock.

And this right over here in red is called the right coronary arteries or the RCA.

Not only coronary heart disease just is not getting enough oxygen, now they are actually dead.

40 percent of our coronary artery disease patients in our communities receive incomplete or inappropriate care.

In this non compliant person's vessels they actually look basically the same. It is not going to look any different. You've got your atherosclerosis.

And so when people talk about arteries getting blocked or getting clogged, they're talking about the coronary arteries.

At that time, much of the fat in the American diet was still not directly linked to coronary heart disease.

So, those cells are going to need blood vessels supplying them as well. So, that's what the coronary blood vessels are.

Well if the main job is to serve the needs of cells, then the coronary vessels fall under the systmic flow.

You can imagine when heart tissue begins to die, this is even worse than what we were describing with coronary heart disease.

In fact scientist are theorizing that this age proteins may play an important role in the development of atherosclerosis, as well as certain complications of diabetes and chronic kidney failure.

Now you've probably the heard the term 'Coronary Heart Disease' or maybe just 'Heart Disease'... these three things are all the SAME thing.

This is the mechanism by which you lower blood pressure, by which you dilate the coronary arteries also, to let the blood be supplied with the heart.

And these coronary vessles they actually come right off the aorta here and here. So they kind of come off the aorta right away, they are the first branches off the aorta, actually.

Now if you have stenosis in one of your blood vessels, and it leads to ischemia then the muscles, and let's just say this a coronary artery here... the muscle cells over here are going to get less oxygen.

If the average age in your country is 45 to 55, now the average person is looking at diabetes, early onset diabetes, heart failure, coronary artery disease things that are inherently more difficult to treat, and much more expensive to treat.

The other symptom that actually might occur when someone has coronary heart disease, where they have obstruction or this ischemia or this deprivation of oxygen downstream from this obstruction, is that they might experience this kind of strangling chest pain

Now suppose you live in a certain part of a certain remote place and you have a loved one who has blockages in two coronary arteries and your family doctor refers that loved one to a cardiologist who's batting 200 on angioplasties.

There's a second big project, recently funded by the Wellcome Trust in this country, involving very large studies thousands of individuals, with each of eight different diseases, common diseases like type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and coronary heart disease, bipolar disease and so on to try and understand the genetics.

And our colleagues in Washington, D.C. had recently published that when women have heart attacks and die, compared to men who have heart attacks and die and again, this is millions of people, happening every day women, in their fatty plaque and this is their coronary artery, so the main blood supply going into the heart muscle women erode, men explode.