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2. Coronary artery disease - Wikipedia

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   Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), or ischemic heart disease (IHD), [13] is a type of heart disease involving the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to a build-up of atheromatous plaque in the arteries of the heart. [5] [6] [14] It is the most common of the cardiovascular diseases. [15]

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

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   Similar to coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease (PAD) involves the narrowing and hardening of blood vessels due to plaque buildup. Since PAD is also a result of atherosclerosis, it ...

4. 8 Common Cardiovascular Diseases for Men & How to Prevent Them

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   Coronary Artery Disease. Coronary artery disease is the most common type of heart disease. It’s strongly linked to: ... The build-up of plaque is also called atherosclerosis.

5. Atherosclerosis - Wikipedia

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   Atherosclerosis [a] is a pattern of the disease arteriosclerosis, [8] characterized by development of abnormalities called lesions in walls of arteries. This is a chronic inflammatory disease involving many different cell types and driven by elevated levels of cholesterol in the blood. [ 9 ]

6. Atherosclerosis: What Men Need to Know About Plaque ... - AOL

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   Atherosclerosis is often referred to as a silent killer, since symptoms often don’t appear or are minimal until it causes severe cardiovascular disease or other complications. Symptoms of ...

7. 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 ...