27 results for “high cholesterol”
59y · Male·atherosclerotic coronary vascular disease
… before death, occupational health screening identified cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, smoking, high cholesterol) with a referral letter for GP follow-up, which he did not pursue. He collapsed during routine …
54y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease secondary to coronary artery atherosclerosis and aneurys…
Harry Barkas, a 54-year-old prisoner with longstanding type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol, collapsed in a prison bathroom. Autopsy revealed severe coronary artery atherosclerosis with d…
52y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease
…onal Centre. He had significant cardiac history including two previous myocardial infarctions (2000, 2006), high cholesterol, and hypertension. During custody from February 2019, Anderson presented multiple times with ch…
76y · Male·Animal attack, likely crocodile
…ors included his age (76), type 2 diabetes managed with insulin (which he did not carry), hypertension, and high cholesterol. He was unfamiliar with the remote location and its dangers. No preventable medical errors were…
69y · Male·Acute myocardial infarction due to coronary atherosclerosis
A 69-year-old male prisoner at Wolston Correctional Centre suffered acute myocardial infarction due to severe coronary atherosclerosis. He collapsed while standing outside his cell and was transported to Princess Alexand…
48y · Male·Cardiomegaly and fatty liver in a man with alcohol intoxication
…-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, poly-substance abuse (alcohol, cannabis, amphetamines), hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes, died suddenly at home from cardiomegaly and fatty liver with alcohol intoxicatio…
68y · Male·Cerebrovascular disease
…following a severe stroke on 25 November 2020. He had poorly controlled Type II diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. Prior to his acute stroke, he experienced cognitive decline and episodes suggestive of transie…
44y · Female·COVID-19
Ms Anne-Maree Tammy Carr, a 44-year-old woman with intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, diabetes, and high cholesterol living in Specialist Disability Accommodation, died from COVID-19 pneumonia on 6 October 2024, …
64y · Female·Ischaemic heart disease
A 64-year-old woman with intellectual disability in supported residential care died from ischaemic heart disease. She presented with abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea on 8 June 2010, was examined by a general practi…
51y · Male·complications of myocardial infarction in association with ischaemic heart disea…
A 51-year-old Aboriginal male prisoner with multiple cardiovascular risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, chronic kidney disease, obesity, smoking) died on 5 February 2024 from myocardial infarction. …
58y · Male·Ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease
…llowing palpitations in October 2011. The coroner found no issues with medical care or treatment. This case highlights the importance of aggressive risk factor modification in high-risk cardiac patients, particularly smo…
83y · Female·right middle cerebral artery infarct/stroke
…riately managed at St Laurence's Court Aged Care Facility with prescribed medications for hypertension, cholesterol and schizophrenia. When stroke symptoms (left arm weakness, facial drooping) were observed by nursing s…
65y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia following emergency laparotomy for incarcerated umbilical h…
A 65-year-old woman with intellectual disability, congenital blindness, diabetes, and epilepsy presented with an incarcerated umbilical hernia requiring emergency surgery. Post-operative aspiration occurred in recovery w…
72y · Female·Not determined - available evidence does not allow findings as to cause of death
Mrs Nadire Sensoy, aged 72, disappeared on or about 6 December 2018. She was an insulin-dependent diabetic with hypertension requiring daily medications. The coroner found she died on the stated date based on: abrupt ces…
51y · Male·Coronary atherosclerosis
…ovided was adequate and reasonable, and that prison staff responded promptly and appropriately. The inquest highlighted systemic health challenges for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners with chronic diseases…
66y · Male·Cardiac hypertrophy and coronary artery disease secondary to obesity (WHO Class …
… Accommodation, died from cardiac hypertrophy and coronary artery disease secondary to obesity and hypercholesterolaemia. He was found struggling to breathe in his bedroom on 9 April 2025 and despite CPR efforts by para…
31y · Male·ischaemic heart disease
A 31-year-old male prisoner with significant pre-existing cardiac disease (previous myocardial infarction with stenting, cardiomegaly, left ventricular hypertrophy, coronary atherosclerosis) and poorly controlled diabete…
64y · Male·acute myocardial infarction in association with coronary artery atherosclerosis
Leslie Charles Linton, a 64-year-old man with severe triple-vessel coronary artery disease, presented to Royal Perth Hospital on 15 December 2023 with an infected foot wound and acute psychosis. Initial troponin elevatio…
40y · Male·cardiac arrhythmia caused by atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular dis…
Brendan Triffett, aged 40 years with significant acquired brain injury from a past drug overdose, multiple comorbidities including morbid obesity, epilepsy, emphysema and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, died sudd…
61y · Male·congestive cardiac failure due to cardiomegaly with left ventricular hypertrophy
A 61-year-old man with diabetes, obesity, and high cholesterol presented to his GP with shortness of breath for 4-5 days and tachycardia (HR 120). The GP diag…
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