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.
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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
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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
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“Heart disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart%20disease. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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