Population
Postmortem human coronary arteriograms
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Deviation from cube law in diseased coronaries may impair flow efficiency; leaves open whether this informs interventions or requires prospective validation.
Coronary artery caliber adjusts to minimize energy loss at branch-points in normal arteries, but this relationship is altered by vascular disease, and branch-angle is independent of vessel caliber.
Hutchins et al. (1976) studied this question.
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