Answer 4

4. Treatment for coronary artery disease (CAD) may include lifestyle changes, medicines, and medical procedures. Lifestyle changes include:

• Follow a heart healthy eating plan to prevent or reduce high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol and to maintain a healthy weight
• Increase physical activity. 
• Lose weight, if overweight or obese.
• Quit smoking, if smoking. Avoid exposure to secondhand smoke.
• Learn to cope with and reduce stress.

Some medications to treat CAD are anticoagulants, aspirin and other antiplatelet medicines. ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, nitroglycerin, glycoprotein IIb-IIIa, statins, and fish oil and other supplements high in omega-3 fatty acids are also effective. Medical procedures include angioplasty, used to open blocked or narrowed coronary arteries, and CABG which is used to bypass the narrowed coronary arteries.

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