Cardiovascular Disease: Class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a kind of disease that involves the heart or blood vessels.
Cardiovascular disease includes coronary artery diseases (CAD) such as angina and myocardial infarction (commonly known as a heart attack). Other CVDs are stroke, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation, congenital heart disease, endocarditis, aortic aneurysms, and peripheral artery disease.
| Cardiovascular disease | |
|---|---|
| Classification and external resources | |
 Micrograph of a heart with fibrosis (yellow) and amyloidosis (brown). Movat's stain. | |
| ICD-10 | I51.6 |
| ICD-9 | 429.2 |
| DiseasesDB | 28808 |
| MeSH | D002318 |
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