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SUBMITTER: Sanchis-Gomar F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4958723 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sanchis-Gomar Fabian F Perez-Quilis Carme C Leischik Roman R Lucia Alejandro A
Annals of translational medicine 20160701 13
The aim of this review is to summarize the incidence, prevalence, trend in mortality, and general prognosis of coronary heart disease (CHD) and a related condition, acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Although CHD mortality has gradually declined over the last decades in western countries, this condition still causes about one-third of all deaths in people older than 35 years. This evidence, along with the fact that mortality from CHD is expected to continue increasing in developing countries, illust ...[more]