Coronary artery disease: Part 1. Epidemiology and diagnosis
Link N; Tanner M
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in Americans, accounting for about 500,000 deaths every year. The annual incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) is about 1.5 million. As many as 2 million middle-aged men may have silent myocardial ischemia. (1)
PMCID:1071353
PMID: 11290684
ISSN: 0093-0415
CID: 21211