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2. What Is Heart Disease? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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   A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, occurs when blood flow to the heart is suddenly blocked. ... The causes of heart disease depend on the type you have. For instance, unhealthy lifestyle ...

3. What Causes Heart Disease? 9 Things Doctors Need You to ... - AOL

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   You wear a seat belt and drive carefully to avoid accidents, you stock up on antioxidant-laden foods to prevent cancer, but you might not realize all the things you should be doing to fight the No ...

4. Coronary artery disease - Wikipedia

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   Limitation of blood flow to the heart causes ischemia (cell starvation secondary to a lack of oxygen) of the heart's muscle cells. The heart's muscle cells may die from lack of oxygen and this is called a myocardial infarction (commonly referred to as a heart attack). It leads to damage, death, and eventual scarring of the heart muscle without ...

5. Cardiovascular disease - Wikipedia

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   Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. [3] CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g. angina, heart attack), heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, carditis, aortic aneurysms, peripheral artery disease ...

6. What Causes a Heart Attack? - AOL

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   Most heart attacks are caused by atherosclerosis. Other causes include a blood clot that travels from elsewhere, a spasm, or a tear in a coronary artery.

7. Myocardial infarction - Wikipedia

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   Myocardial infarction; Other names: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart attack: A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, causing catastrophic thrombus formation, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream to the heart muscle.