Question 1

can you describe heart disease?

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Yes and No: In 400 words? Well there are lots of things that can go wrong with the heart. The muscle can be weak, the valves can lea. If the arteries bet blocked it can damage the muscle and cause heart failure. There can be infections of the heart or tumors. There can be rhythm problems making it beat to fast or slow. So I am about out fo words but not too bad for four hundred letters more or less.

Question 2

can you describe chronic heart disease?

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Yes i can: It is the opposite of acute which means it just happened. Chronic means you have had it awhile. That would apply to any type of heart disease, such as coronary artery disease, valve disease, heart muscle disease, or a heart attack.

Question 3

can you describe ischemic heart disease?

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Yes: Ischemic heart disease simply means heart disease that results from lack or reduced amount of blood flow to the muscle of the heart.  Usually, this is a consequence of coronary artery disease.  This, if significant, will usually result in symptoms such as chest pain, sob, or in some cases nausea or other more atypical symptoms.

Question 4

can you describe nonspecific valvular heart disease?

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Non specific: This sounds more like an insurance code than a real diagnosis. As cardiologists, we diagnose valves as narrow, leaking, calcified, abnormal in appearance etc... When an insurance billing code is used for "valvular disease" without specifying what type of abnormality, it is qualified as "non specific"... Welcome to the world of coding :-).

Question 5

please describe the three main causes of heart disease?

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Heart disease: Atherosclerotic disease, infectios heart disease, valvar heart disease.

Question 6

describe risk factors of coronary heart disease?

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See below: The most common riak factors are : family history . Hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, smoking ., age>45 in men, >55 in women.

Question 7

is heart disease hereditory?

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Yes: Atheroscerotic heart disease is inherited. It is a signigicant risk factor for offspring of heartattack pts.

Question 8

are there cures for heart disease?

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Yes: Lose the vat (visceral adipose tissue) which included the epicardial adipose tissue (eat) on the surface of the heart.

Question 9

what are the signs of heart disease?

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Signs of heart dis.: Signs of heart disease can be many. And the signs can be similar to other conditions.  Some of the possible warning signs are: chest pain or discomfort often radiating to the neck, teeth, or both arms or back, shortness of breath especially on effort, fluid retention with swelling of the ankles, palpitations, irregular heart rhythm, high blood pressure, black out spells, profuse sweating.

Question 10

what is an infiltrated heart disease?

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See below: Infiltrative heart disease refers to any condition in which materials produced by abnormal cell lines or abnormal metabolic processes lay down foreign material into the heart muscle itself, resulting in stiffening of the heart and leading many times to congestive heart failure or less often conduction abnormalities of the heart electrical system. Classic example is multiple myeloma.

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