Coronary atherosclerosis is not coronary heart disease

Coronary heart disease is coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, coronary atherosclerosis is generally not coronary atherosclerotic heart disease.

Coronary atherosclerotic heart disease is caused by coronary atherosclerosis lumen stenosis or occlusion, leading to myocardial ischemia, hypoxia or necrosis of the disease. Coronary atherosclerosis patients coronary artery lumen sclerosis, may be accompanied by a small amount of plaque formation, but the degree of arterial lumen stenosis is generally less than 50%, there is no myocardial ischemia, hypoxia symptoms, this situation belongs to coronary atherosclerotic heart disease early stage.