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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Additional research revealed the degree of hostility in your personality and approach to life that matters most regarding heart disease risk.
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Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2024
Men without heart disease risk factors can typically wait until 35, and women without these risk factors can wait until 45 to start regular cholesterol testing, Gersch says.
—Sarah Klein, TIME, 1 Apr. 2024
For example, writer and author William Dameron pinned his recent essay in HuffPost Personal around a statistic from the American Heart Association on how LGBTQ people experience higher rates of heart disease based on discrimination.
—Estelle Erasmus, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024
People who ate all their food in less than eight hours were 91 percent more likely to die from heart disease during the study period than people who ate throughout a 12- to 16-hour window.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
Pharma giants are scooping up treatments for heart disease
Johnson & Johnson’s last major acquisition was also in heart devices—Abiomed was added to the fold for for $16.6 billion in 2022.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2024
The study also found that people who already had cardiovascular disease and ate over a period of fewer than 10 hours a day had a 66% higher risk of death from heart disease or stroke.
—Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2024
Untreated psoriasis can also lead to heart disease.
—Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 27 Mar. 2024
By 2022, hospitalization rates for these diseases — such as stroke, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancer — were either back to pre-COVID, 2019 levels or slightly below them.
—Kunle Falayi, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2024
Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2024
Men without heart disease risk factors can typically wait until 35, and women without these risk factors can wait until 45 to start regular cholesterol testing, Gersch says.
—Sarah Klein, TIME, 1 Apr. 2024
For example, writer and author William Dameron pinned his recent essay in HuffPost Personal around a statistic from the American Heart Association on how LGBTQ people experience higher rates of heart disease based on discrimination.
—Estelle Erasmus, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024
People who ate all their food in less than eight hours were 91 percent more likely to die from heart disease during the study period than people who ate throughout a 12- to 16-hour window.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
Pharma giants are scooping up treatments for heart disease
Johnson & Johnson’s last major acquisition was also in heart devices—Abiomed was added to the fold for for $16.6 billion in 2022.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2024
The study also found that people who already had cardiovascular disease and ate over a period of fewer than 10 hours a day had a 66% higher risk of death from heart disease or stroke.
—Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2024
Untreated psoriasis can also lead to heart disease.
—Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 27 Mar. 2024
By 2022, hospitalization rates for these diseases — such as stroke, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancer — were either back to pre-COVID, 2019 levels or slightly below them.
—Kunle Falayi, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2024
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“Heart disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart%20disease. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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