How to Use coronary artery in a Sentence

coronary artery

noun
  • However, a heart attack, as well as any form of coronary artery disease, can lead to cardiac arrest.
    Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The study involved 678 people with coronary artery disease.
    Amy Norton, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • In the average heart attack, a clot in a major coronary artery blocks blood flow to the heart, permanently killing some of the muscle.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Many patients have coronary arteries that are 80 to 90 percent blocked.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • This can be caused by an irregular heartbeat (called an arrhythmia), a heart attack, or coronary artery disease.
    Sarah Klein, Health.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Many patients have coronary arteries that are 80 percent to 90 percent blocked.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Researchers found Simpson's coronary arteries were normal.
    Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The cause was coronary artery disease, said a brother, Vincent T. McDonald.
    Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Women under 60 who are less than 10 years out from menopause who are put on hormones have a slower progression of their coronary artery thickness which is a marker for heart disease.
    Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The cause was coronary artery disease, said a son, John Angell.
    Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The more severe the apnea, the greater the risk of coronary artery disease, heart attacks, heart failure and strokes.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The cause was coronary artery disease, said a daughter, Jennifer Leach.
    Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
  • This includes coronary artery disease, the kind of heart disease that leads to heart attacks.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Some of the most common causes are coronary artery disease (CAD) and high blood pressure.
    Lambeth Hochwald, Health, 3 May 2024
  • Hi Larry, My husband has coronary artery disease and had two stents placed in 2009.
    Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • His wife, Alice Susan Vachss, said the cause was coronary artery disease.
    New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The test, which is like a CT scan, measures calcified plaque in the coronary arteries.
    Betsy McKay, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2018
  • One death at the hotel was labeled as natural — a 41-year-old man found to have died of coronary artery disease.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
  • Stents are used to treat blocked coronary arteries, which feed into the heart muscle.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Two stints were placed in his right coronary artery and he was started on heart medication.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Cain has coronary artery disease and suffered two heart attacks, the filing says.
    Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Heart attacks occur when a coronary artery leading to the heart is blocked, which prevents blood from reaching the organ.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • This happens because of coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common type of heart disease.
    Yuliya Klochan, Health, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Rene Favaloro performs the first coronary bypass surgery in 1967, taking a length of vein from a leg and grafting it onto the coronary artery.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2022
  • On his death certificate, Jim’s cause of death is listed as coronary artery disease.
    Derek Kravitz, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2021
  • With coronary artery disease, plaque builds up and narrows the arteries, and in turn, interferes with blood flow to the heart, as the Mayo Clinic explains.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Dec. 2018
  • If a coronary artery is completely blocked, a heart attack can occur.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Dec. 2018
  • In patients with heart disease, the cells worm into the fatty plaques lining the coronary arteries.
    Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Our 2010 paper was the first to capture the entire coronary tree — that is, all of your coronary arteries — for the duration of a heartbeat at cellular resolution.
    Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2024
  • Contributing factors in the Friends actor’s death included drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine (used to treat opioid use disorder).
    Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 25 July 2024

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