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Excessive Amounts of Salt Consumption and Atheroma Formation Among Patients Awaiting Coronary-Artery-Bypass-Grafting at A Tertiary Care Hospital in Sri Lanka
2020-11-13
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background:</bold>Ischemic Heart Disease(IHD) characterized by atheroma formation, is a leading contributor for the rising disease burden of chronic non-communicable diseases in Sri Lanka. Even though excessive salt-consumption has been attributed with hypertension, documented literature is scarce on exploring its direct association with atheroma formation with primary data. Coron...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e631a91d-59c2-5e27-91af-7da4135b1414
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-79514/v1
