How to Use coronary in a Sentence

coronary

adjective
  • Your result showed a 4.6% risk of a coronary event, such as a heart attack, in the next 10 years.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2022
  • At the time, the cause of death was unknown and pending a full coronary report.
    Diana Bruk, Seventeen, 15 May 2017
  • Well, one way to find out is to have a coronary calcium scan.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Coronary heart disease can increase the risk of a heart attack, in which a blood clot blocks blood flow to the heart.
    Rachael Rettner, Fox News, 10 July 2017
  • Her son, Caleb Goddard, said the cause was coronary failure.
    Anita Gates, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • And the bride’s uncle later had a coronary while dancing the polka.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2022
  • Her son, Caleb Goddard, who announced the death on Thursday, said the cause was coronary failure.
    Anita Gates, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Elfering woke up in the hospital and spent four days in the coronary care unit (CCU) before she was discharged.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Dec. 2018
  • The Peloton of it all turns Big’s coronary into a comedy sketch.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2021
  • He was found dead in his cell the following morning, a victim of coronary artery disease.
    Ames Alexander, Gavin Off and Elizabeth Leland, charlotteobserver, 31 May 2017
  • 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
  • Many are people 60 and over and who had some type of previous illness or coronary problem.
    Editors, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Any kind of pain or discomfort in the chest should make a physician concerned about blockages in the coronary arteries.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2021
  • With each beat, the heart in the Plexiglass box glows pink at its base, illuminating raised coronary veins.
    Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Instead of a left and a right coronary artery, Anderson had two coronary arteries on the right side that supplied blood to his heart.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Black mothers, who are three times as likely as white mothers to die, made up close to a third of deaths and were most likely to die of cardiac and coronary problems.
    Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The screening test is a five-minute CT-scan used to determine a patient’s coronary calcium score.
    Ginger Christ, cleveland, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Had a mouse suffered a coronary somewhere in the closet’s recesses?
    Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The heart attack and coronary rates were 19% and 11% lower, respectively, in the vitamin D group.
    Brian Mastroianni, Health, 21 July 2023
  • As explained in the same video, the coronary arteries, which carry oxygen to the heart, become inflamed when immune cells leave the bloodstream and enter the wall of the blood vessel.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • When coronary arteries are blocked, starving the heart of blood, there are good medications and treatments to deploy, from statins to stents.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
  • An autopsy later revealed a coronary arrhythmia was the cause of his death.
    Alicia Lee, CNN, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Her husband informed them of her history of coronary issues, which includes a 2008 open-heart surgery.
    Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • The goal of the new coronary care unit was to reduce the hospital’s 35 percent mortality rate among heart attack patients.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2021
  • For one thing, the test measures arterial plaque that is hardened and firmly attached to the lining of coronary vessels.
    Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In some cases, kids have life-threatening aneurysms that threaten to burst the coronary arteries, the delicate vessels that supply blood to the heart.
    James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 1 July 2020
  • Wood noted that most of the severe problems from a coronary blockage occur when a person stays home despite their symptoms.
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • In the official readout of the physical exam, the White House did not reveal that Trump also had a coronary calcium scan done.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The development of coronary care units promises a profound change in the treatment of patients with coronary artery disease.
    Daniel C. Schlenoff, Scientific American, 13 July 2018
  • Nelson asked Tobin about 70 to 90% blockage found in Floyd's coronary arteries and whether that may have been a contributing factor.
    Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021

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