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Coronary artery disease: Part 1. Epidemiology and diagnosis
1Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. nlink@bhc.org
The Western Journal of Medicine
|April 6, 2001
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)