Healthy & Wise - 2023 | Issue 2

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a sneaky form of heart disease that can quietly develop over time and show up as a heart attack in the unsuspecting. Each year, hundreds of life-saving procedures for patients with CAD are performed by the experts at Bridgeport Hospital’s Heart and Vascular Center (HVC).

Women have equated the pain to labor and childbirth. Men have described it as the worst pain of their life. What can cause such a horrible pain? For some people, the answer is kidney stones.