An Introduction To Coronary Artery Disease Before your heart can pump blood to the rest of your body, it must receive it from your coronary arteries. There are two main arteries that supply oxygenated blood to your heart: the left and the right. Both branch out into a network of other arteries. When a blockage [...]

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How Coronary Artery Disease Is Diagnosed Your heart receives oxygen-rich blood from your left and right coronary arteries. For a number of reasons, plaque may build up within them. It begins as a small accumulation, but forms a blockage over time. This is called atherosclerosis. Eventually, the blockage will begin to hamper the flow of [...]

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