How to Use coronary artery in a Sentence

coronary artery

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The study involved 678 people with coronary artery disease.
    Amy Norton, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Those vessels have been narrowed by fatty buildup as a result of coronary artery disease.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Open-heart surgery was long considered the only way to restore blood flow limited by a blockage in a coronary artery.
    Jonathan P. Gertler, STAT, 13 Feb. 2020
  • James Caan, the legendary Godfather actor who died on July 6 at the age of 82, succumbed to a heart attack and coronary artery disease.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 23 July 2022
  • Bloomberg did, however, have two stents implanted in a coronary artery after a blockage in his heart two decades ago.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2020
  • He was diagnosed with an anomalous right coronary artery.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • This type of heart disease is called coronary artery disease, and is the reason people get heart attacks in almost every case.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2021
  • When cholesterol builds up in the arteries that supply blood to the heart — hardening and narrowing the path — it’s known as coronary artery disease.
    Christopher Desimone, M.d., Ph.d. Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Insufficient sleep can lead to high blood pressure, obesity, and coronary artery disease.
    Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The autopsy report also cited drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine — a drug used to treat opioid use disorder — as contributing to his death.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024

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