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8 unusual facts about angina pectoris


Arthur T. F. Reynolds

Arthur and his wife were forced into early retirement from missionary work in 1971 due to Arthur's angina.

Diethylene glycol dinitrate

Consequently, diethylene glycol dinitrate has occasionally been used medically to relieve angina, substernal chest pain associated with impaired cardiac circulation.

Eleutherococcus senticosus

In Chinese herbology, E. senticosis is used by people with bone marrow suppression caused by chemotherapy or radiation, angina, hypercholesterolemia, and neurasthenia with headache, insomnia, and poor appetite.

Frank Paton

Angina pectoris was recorded as the cause of death on Frank Paton's death certificate, registered 19 November 1909 by his widow.

Maxwell Knight

His broadcast career progressed alongside his MI5 work until 1956 when he retired early, from MI5, on the grounds of ill health, suffering from angina.

Necip Torumtay

On 24 June 2011, Necip Torumtay suffered symptoms of coronary artery spasm during his stay at the Aksaz Naval Base in Marmaris, and was transferred to the Gülhane Military Hospital, Ankara, by an air ambulance.

Vyacheslav Menzhinsky

Menzhinsky spent his last years as an invalid, suffering from acute angina since the late twenties, which rendered him incapable of physical exertion.

Whitehall Study

The primary health risks under investigation in the Whitehall studies include cardiovascular function, smoking, car ownership, angina, leisure and hobbies, ECG measurements, and diabetes.


Nicardipine

Nicardipine is a dihydropyridine calcium-channel blocking agent used for the treatment of vascular disorders such as chronic stable angina, hypertension, and Raynaud's phenomenon.

William Heberden

Heberden, who was also a classical scholar, published several papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; and among his noteworthy contributions to the Medical Transactions (issued, largely at his suggestion, by the College of Physicians) were papers on chickenpox (1767) and angina pectoris (1768).


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