Medicine Atlas

How Healing Is Practiced
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Conditions

Angina Pectoris

Diseases of the Circulatory System

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

Angina, in full angina pectoris, is chest pain or pressure, usually caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle. It is most commonly a symptom of coronary artery disease.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

The discovery of cholesterol's role in atherosclerosis directly underlies the modern understanding of the coronary disease that causes angina pectoris.

Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.