Editing Coronary artery disease (section)

==Society and culture==
===Names===
Other terms sometimes used for this condition are "hardening of the arteries" and "narrowing of the arteries".<ref>{{cite web|title=Other Names for Coronary Heart Disease|url=http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/cad/names|access-date=23 February 2015|date=29 September 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213015725/http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/cad/names|archive-date=13 February 2015}}</ref> In Latin it is known as ''morbus ischaemicus cordis'' (''MIC'').

===Support groups===
The Infarct Combat Project (ICP) is an international [[nonprofit organization]] founded in 1998 which tries to decrease [[ischemic heart disease]]s through education and research.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Mission |url=http://www.infarctcombat.org/OurMission.html |website=Infarct Combat Project }}</ref>

===Industry influence on research===
In 2016 research into the internal documents of the Sugar Research Foundation, the [[trade association]] for the [[sugar industry]] in the US, had sponsored an influential [[literature review]] published in 1965 in the ''[[New England Journal of Medicine]]'' that downplayed early findings about the role of a diet heavy in sugar in the development of CAD and emphasized the role of fat; that review influenced decades of research funding and guidance on [[healthy eating]].<ref name=NYT01>O'Connor, Anahad, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html "How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228172339/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html |date=28 February 2017 }}, ''The New York Times'', 12 September 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Nestle M | title = Food Industry Funding of Nutrition Research: The Relevance of History for Current Debates | journal = JAMA Internal Medicine | volume = 176 | issue = 11 | pages = 1685–86 | date = November 2016 | pmid = 27618496 | doi = 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5400 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Kearns CE, Schmidt LA, Glantz SA | title = Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents | journal = JAMA Internal Medicine | volume = 176 | issue = 11 | pages = 1680–85 | date = November 2016 | pmid = 27617709 | pmc = 5099084 | doi = 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5394 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| vauthors = Ifill G |title=How the sugar industry paid experts to downplay health risks|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/sugar-industry-paid-experts-downplay-health-risks/|work=PBS NewsHour|date=13 September 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820202628/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/sugar-industry-paid-experts-downplay-health-risks/|archive-date=20 August 2017}}</ref>