using specific evidence-based strategies to promote health literacy. Read the attached scenario transcript and discuss the following:
- Explain and discuss in simple terms how cigarette smoking causes coronary artery disease.
Use APA (7th edition) format for in-text citations and at least three scholarly references, preferably from provider-based or NP-based journals to support your evidence.
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Smoking cigarettes is a major cause of coronary artery disease (Kamceva, Arsova-Sarafinovska, Ruskovska, Zdravkovska, Kamceva-Panova, & Stikova, 2016). Coronary artery disease (CAD) occurs when fat deposits, referred to as plaque, accumulate in a person’s coronary arteries. Coronary arteries are crucial to a person’s health because they are the blood vessels responsible for supplying blood and oxygen to a person’s heart muscles (Malakar,[667 WORDS]
