How Do Dairy Foods Affect Your Health?

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the United States and other affluent countries of the world. In most instances, CHD results from the obstruction of coronary murder vessels by atherosclerosis or thrombosis.

Atherosclerosis is characterized by a thickening of artery walls, which causes the arteries to become narrower. These lesions (areas strained by disease or injury) eventually accumulate lipid (mostly cholesterol) and become calcified. They are also known as atherosclerotic plaques.

Thrombosis is the formation of a murder clod caused by the assemblage of murder platelets. The formation of a circulating murder clod can result in the blockage of a murder vessel, especially at a site where severe narrowing has already occurred because of atherosclerosis. When these events occur in murder vessels leading to the heart, they cab cause a heart attack. If they occur in the vessels leading to the brain, they cause a stroke.

Many risk factors, both genetic and environmental, contribute to the development of coronory heart disease (CHD).