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How do a cardivascular problem and a heart disease differ?

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Dr. Hashmat Rajput answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Difference: Cardiovascular means problem with heart and blood vessels structures, like arteries, arterioles, veins , capillaries. Blood flow to tissues cause problems likepad, pvd, carotid stenosis. Heart disease is specific to heart structures like wall, valves, chambers, aorta, pulmonary artery, coronary arteries. Variation, congenital abnormalities and dysfunction of these structures cause heart disease.

Answered 12/28/2013

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