Cardiac Catheterization / Coronary Angiogram

Cardiac catheterization is a diagnostic procedure in which a long thin flexible tube (catheter) is inserted from a blood vessel in your arm or leg and then guided to the heart. Cardiac catheterization can be used to check for narrowing or blockages in the arteries or blood pressure within the heart.

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South Asians Thrice Likelier to Repeat Angioplasty Than White Europeans
medindia 8870 Posts South Asian coronary artery disease patients were thrice likelier to be readmitted to hospital for further interventional treatment to arterial plaque than their White European counterparts....Read More
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pmanokar
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cannot agree more.

We are the worst race in the world when it comes to Coronary artery disease.

No one smokes like the Chinese, No one drinks like the British or French, No one eats like the Americans

and No one has Heart Disease as bad as the Indians.

part of this due to the high prevalence of Diabetes in the Indian subcontinent.

Part of it is due to the fact that we have Indian genetics and eat american style food

Replied on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 4:25 AM

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