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Angina pectoris had been described in the eighteenth century. In 1900 there were still different opinions among authorities about its cause, though Osler thought it was usually associated with coronary artery disease.
“Coronary thrombosis” was only diagnosed at post mortem until individual living cases were described in 1910 and 1912. The new electrocardiogram was used to support the diagnosis in 1919. The first 100 cases of “cardiac infarction and coronary thrombosis” was published in the Lancet in 1928; “disease of the coronary arteries” appeared in international mortality statistics soon after. Years 1900–1928.
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Truswell, A.S. (2010). Emergence of Coronary Heart Disease as a Diagnosis. In: Cholesterol and Beyond. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8875-8_1
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