Dear Readers,
Below are the most commons in cardiology that I’ve put together from this block. I’m sure once I enter rotations I will be adding many more. Can I just say that one of my biggest pet-peeves right now is the incorrect pronunciation of medical terms? For example, angina. This word has been produced in two ways by various professors, but there must be a correct way to pronounce it, so naturally, I looked it up. “An-jen-uh” is the correct pronunciation, while “an-jine-ah” is colloquially used, but incorrect.
Cardiology Most Commons
- Most common pathologic process of the pericardium - Pericarditis
- Most common etiology of Acute Pericarditis - coxsackievirus A and B
- Most common cause of death in the U.S. - Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
- Coronary microcirculation disease more common in women - this is why CAD affects more women than men annually
- Exercise electrocardiography less accurate in women
- More women die each year of CAD
- Most common cause of sudden cardiac death: ventricular fibrillation
- Most common cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes: hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM)
- Hypertension
- More common in women as age increases
- More common in men in young and middle aged people
- More common in African Americans and lower socioeconomic groups
- African Americans develop at earlier age compared to other races
- Secondary HTN - more common in children
- White coat HTN - affects more treated women than men
- HTN is the SECOND most common cause of CKD
