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What is the correlation between coronary artery disease,coronary heart disease and ischemic heart disease


What is the correlation between coronary artery disease,coronary heart disease and ischemic heart disease?
Are they actually the same? I have to do an assignment about coronary artery disease.I'm kinda confused,some books say that CAD=CHD=IHD while others say CAD=CHD and can cause IHD.
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Coronary artery disease/coronary heart disease is the atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries. There will be no symptoms. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart. CHD is also called coronary artery disease. When it gets to an advanced stage, less and less oxygenated blood is supplied to the cardiac muscles. When such a patient shows difficulty in climbing the stairs, he feels labored breathing (dyspnoea) and chest pain. Such a condition is known as ischemic heart disease.
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they are basically all the same



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