Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A structural or functional abnormality of the heart, or of the blood vessels supplying the heart, that impairs its normal functioning.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a disease of the heart
Examples
“The author remembers visiting a dairy farmer in North Karelia in the early 1970s, when the heart disease prevention intervention was getting under way.”
“This study was conducted by Korhonen and others 1999 in North Karelia, a province in Finland that in the 1970s had the highest rates of heart disease in the world.”
“The results of the Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Program showed an important reduction in the risk of heart disease in the California communities.”
“By the 1990s, however, a long-term campaign to decrease the risk of heart disease in North Karelia resulted in changed diets and smoking behavior.”
“Prof. Broadbent, whose experience with heart disease was perhaps the greatest in our generation, frequently dwells, in”
“Cutting edge: T cell Ig mucin-3 reduces inflammatory heart disease by increasing CTLA-4 during innate immunity.”
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“Other studies show similar elevated risk of heart disease among patients with lupus, diabetes, and MS. Researchers believe that some of the genetic variants that predispose a patient to autoimmune disease are the same genetic variants that predispose a patient to heart disease.”
“As mentioned previously, a few decades ago, North Karelia had the highest rates of heart disease in Finland, which had the highest rate of any nation at the time.”
“Recall that our colleague Robert Levine described a social factor that he called “pace of life” and consistently found higher rates of coronary heart disease in people who lived in countries driven by a fast pace of life.48 Live too fast, die too young.”
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