From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Patient

Naghavi, Morteza; Libby, Peter; Falk, Erling; Ward Casscells, S.; Litovsky, Silvio; A. Rumberger, John; J. Badimón, Juan; Stefanadis, Christodoulos; Moreno, Pedro; Pasterkamp, Gerard; A. Fayad, Zahi; H. Stone, Peter; Waxman, Sergio; Raggi, Paolo; Madjid, Mohammad; Zarrabi, Alireza; Burke, Allen; Yuan, Chun; J. Fitzgerald, Peter; S. Siscovick, David; L. de Korte, Chris; Aikawa, Masanori; Airaksinen, Juhani; Assmann, Gerd; R. Becker, Christoph; H. Chesebro, James; Farb, Andrew; S. Galis, Zorina; Jackson, Chris; Jang, Ik‐Kyung; Köenig, Wolfgang; A. Lodder, Robert; L. March, Keith; Demirovic, Jasenka; Navab, Mohamad; G. Priori, Silvia; D. Rekhter, Mark; D. Bahr, Raymond; M. Grundy, Scott; Mehran, Roxana; Colombo, Antonio; Boerwinkle, Eric; M. Ballantyne, Christie; Insull, William; S. Schwartz, Robert; A. Vogel, Robert; W. Serruys, Patrick; K. Hansson, Göran; P. Faxon, David; Kaul, Sanjay; Drexler, Helmut; Greenland, Philip; E. Muller, James; Virmani, Renu; M. Ridker, Paul; P. Zipes, Douglas; K. Shah, Prediman; T. Willerson, James

doi:10.1161/01.cir.0000087481.55887.c9

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From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Patient

Published in Circulation • Oct 13, 2003

Authors:

Morteza Naghavi

Peter Libby

Erling Falk

Abstract

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease results in >19 million deaths annually, and coronary heart disease accounts for the majority of this toll. Despite major advances in treatment of coronary heart disease patients, a large number of victims of the disease who are apparently healthy die suddenly w...

Subject

Medicine

Vulnerable plaque

Myocardial infarction

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