heart disease

noun

: an abnormal condition of the heart or of the heart and circulation (such as coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, or heart-valve defect)

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Eating broccoli regularly may help lower your risk of heart disease, cancer, and other chronic conditions. Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 27 Oct. 2025 Additionally, women who already had heart disease experienced a threefold decrease in the risk of death compared with men with similar medical histories, who needed nearly twice as much weekly exercise to achieve a similar reduction in the risk of dying from any cause. Dr. Cyrus Mowdawalla, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2025 The organization’s Green Heart Project, which studies the impact of better air quality on heart disease through urban greening, has found that increasing the number of trees and shrubs in an area can create lower levels of a blood marker associated with inflammation. Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025 It’s linked to higher rates of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, digestive disorders, autoimmune disease, dementia, depression, Parkinson’s, cancer—and, of course, insomnia. Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heart disease

Word History

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of heart disease was in 1830

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“Heart disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart%20disease. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

Kids Definition

heart disease

noun
: an abnormal condition of the heart or of the heart and blood circulation

Medical Definition

heart disease

noun
: an abnormal condition of the heart or of the heart and circulation (as coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, or heart-valve defect)

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