Heart Disease

Definition: Heart Disease

Heart Disease

Noun

1. A disease of the heart.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Heart Disease

Crosswords: Heart Disease

References

• The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Coronary Heart Disease (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Physical activity and aging; with special reference to the effect of exercise and training on the natural history of arteriosclerotic heart disease (reference)

• Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Are Causing Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments (reference)

• 21st Century Complete Medical Guide to Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Cholesterol, Coronary Artery Disease, Bypass Surgery, Angioplasty � Authoritative Federal Government Documents and Clinical References for Patients and Physicians with Practical Informati (reference)

• Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions: Self-Management of Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema & Others (reference)

• Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough: The Superb Antioxidant That May Slow Aging, Repair Liver Damage, and Reduce the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ca Selects: Atherosclerosis & Heart Disease (reference)

• Heart Disease : A Journal Of Cardiovascular Medicine (reference)

• New Horizons In Coronary Heart Disease (reference)

• Perioperative Management Of The Patient With Congenital Heart Disease (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Heart Disease (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Heart disease strikes more and more frequently in all age groups. / WHO photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

International Comparisons : Trends and Determinants of Coronary Heart Disease Mortality / National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [et.al.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Warning: Cigarette Smoking May Cause Death From: : Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Multiple Risk Factors and Heart Disease.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Aspirin And Heart Disease.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Coronary artery heart disease. (references)

By age 65 one in four women have heart disease. (references)

Hagar JM, Rahimtoola SH. Chagas' heart disease. (references)

Business

There is a constant need for diagnostic systems and equipment for heart disease, cancer and apparatus for intensive care units. (references)

In 1998, the top ten causes of death were cancer, strokes, accidents, heart disease, diabetes, liver disease, pneumonia, nephritis, hypertensive disease and suicide. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

Hong Kong's 6.9 million population in 2000 will increase to 7.3 million by 2006. Those aged 65 and above, which constituted about 11 percent of the population in 2000, will rise to about 13 percent in 2016. As a result, there has been an increase in disease patterns and related drugs towards chronic ailments, such as stroke, diabetes and coronary heart disease. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

Most died as a result of overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions, or lack of medical care (the leading cause of death was heart disease), but some died due to beatings. (references)

China

Prison officials in Xinjiang have not allowed family members of businesswoman and prominent Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer to bring her medicine for heart disease since her arrest in August 1999. She is said to be in poor health, suffering from painful feet, blurred vision, and impaired hearing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "heart disease": Atherosclerosis and Heart Disease Prevention ♦ Carcinoid Heart Disease ♦ Coronary heart disease ♦ Heart Disease Prevention ♦ organic heart disease ♦ rheumatic heart disease ♦ valvular heart disease. Additional references.

Albanian

sëmundje zemre. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдечно заболяване (heart). (various references)

Chinese 

心臟病 . (various references)

Czech

srdeèní vada. (various references)

Danish

koronar hjertesygdom (coronary heart disease), iskaemisk hjertelidelse (ischemic heart disease). (various references)

Dutch

ischemische hartziekte (ischemic heart disease), ischaemia cordis (ischemic heart disease). (various references)

Finnish

sydänvika, sydäntauti. (various references)

French

maladie cardiaque. (various references)

German

herzleiden (heart condition). (various references)

Greek 

ισχαιμική καρδιοπάθεια (ischemic heart disease). (various references)

Hungarian

szívbaj. (various references)

Italian

ischemia cardiaca (ischemic heart disease), cardiopatia ischemica (ischemic heart disease). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

心�"病 (heart trouble). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"ぞうびょう (heart trouble). (various references)

Manx

gorley cree (angina). (various references)

Pig Latin

earthay iseaseday

Romanian

boalã de inimã. (various references)

Russian 

болезнь сердца (heart trouble, heart-disease). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obolenje srca. (various references)

Spanish

enfermedad cardíaca. (various references)

Swedish

hjärtfel (organic heart disease). (various references)

Turkish

kâlp hastalığı (heart condition). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: heartsease.

-3 letters: deaerates, diaereses, diatheses, eradiates, headrests, steadiers.

-4 letters: airdates, airheads, airsheds, asserted, asterias, atresias, dashiest, dataries, deaerate, diastase, diasters, diereses, diesters, diethers, disaster, disrates, eateries, editress, eradiate, esterase, esthesia, haeredes, harassed, hardiest, headiest, headrest, headsets, hearties, heisters, heresies, hetaerae, hetaeras, hetairas, radiates, radishes, readiest, reediest, reheated, reseated, resisted, seediest, seriated, seriates, shadiest, sheerest, sheeters, sistered, steadier, steadies, tesserae.

-5 letters: adheres, aerated, aerates, aeriest, aethers, airdate, airhead, airshed, airthed, aridest, aristae, aristas, ashiest, asteria, astride, atresia, dashers, dashier, dearest, dearies, dearths, deashes, derates, deserts, desires, dessert, diaster, diester, dieters, diether, disease, disrate, disseat, dissert, dithers, earthed, easiest, easters, eeriest, hardest, hardies, hardset, hastier, hatreds, headers, headier, headset, hearsed, hearses, hearted, heaters, heeders, heiress, heisted, heister, heredes, hessite, hetaera, hetaira, ideates, radiate, rashest, readies, redates, reedits, reested, reheats, reseats, resedas, reseeds, resides, resited, resites, satires, searest, seaside, seaters, sedater, sedates, seeders, seedier, seethed, seethes, seriate, shaders, shadier, shairds, sheared, sheered, sheeted, sheeter, sradhas, stadias, staider, stashed, steered, strides, tardies, tarsias, teasers, tessera, threads, tiaraed, tirades, trashed, trashes, tressed.

+4 letters: faintheartedness.

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