Synonyms for heart disease
heart dis·ease

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1. heart disease, cardiopathynoun

   a disease of the heart

   Synonyms:
   cardiopathy

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1. • Cardiovascular Disease

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1. Georges Benjamin:

   If you think about the things that cause premature death -- heart disease, perinatal deaths, tobacco-related diseases -- in many ways, those are spurred by social determinants.

2. Doug Williamson:

   An analogy to this would be cholesterol-lowering drugs and heart disease.

3. Qi Sun:

   If you are really looking into whole-grain consumption with other diseases, stroke, heart disease and colorectal cancer, whole grains are consistently associated with [a] lower risk of those diseases.

4. Otis Brawley:

   I don't think the two diseases ought to be competing against each other, i think we need to realize that some of the causes of heart diseases are major causes of cancer. We talk a lot about high caloric intake, obesity and lack of physical activity. Those are risk factors for heart disease, as well as cancer. We talk a great deal about tobacco use. That's a risk factor for heart disease as well as cancer. We need to double down and work on all of those things.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   Then there's the other thing that is really the chronic and decades-old dilemma of the social determinants of health, which is why African Americans have a higher degree of diabetes, of hypertension, of obesity, of heart disease, of chronic lung disease, of kidney disease, that does not need to be. But to get corrected, you have to make a decades-long commitment to change that.