heart disease
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1.9
- noun
- /hɑrt dɪˈziz/
- Specialized
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enfermedad cardíaca
- With obesity comes an increased risk for diabetes and heart disease.
- coronary heart disease
- risk of heart disease
- ischaemic heart disease
Do statins reduce heart disease, yes or no?
- Do statins reduce heart disease, yes or no?
- Men are are dying of heart disease and cancer more than women.
- It's been linked with bowel cancer, heart disease, not feeling feelings.
- And so many of these disorders are like heart disease, they're not disorders.
- That's more than the cost of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined.
- So we're getting increases in cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity.
- You've heard that coffee causes heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis.
- But it's not just diabetes, it's Alzheimer's, heart disease, stroke, strokes.
- Low testosterone has also been linked to heart disease, cancer, diabetes.
- We treat cancer, we treat heart disease, we treat frailty, we treat Alzheimer's.
- What's the biggest risk factor for developing heart disease and a heart attack?
- The higher your triglyceride is, the more at risk of heart disease you are.
- But, you know, a typical call in Louisiana is anything from heart disease, suicide, OD.
- We shouldn't just say, all right, heart disease kills a third of us.
Examples
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There seems to be a link between smoking and heart disease.
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Men are are dying of heart disease and cancer more than women.
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The battle against heart disease must continue.
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What's the biggest risk factor for developing heart disease and a heart attack?
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You'll reduce your risk of heart disease and diabetes and maybe some forms of cancer.
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Each year, American businesses lose an estimated 52 million workdays to heart disease alone.
Academic text (1991) -
It causes heart disease, depression, suicide, early death in all its variants.
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These are indications of chronic heart disease and chronic kidney disease.
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There seems to be a link between smoking and heart disease.
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Women die eight times more frequently from heart disease than from breast cancer.
Synonyms
15
3.5
A disease that affects the heart or blood vessels
An illness of the heart that makes it work badly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'heart' (the organ) + 'disease' (a condition that disrupts normal function): together they denote a disease affecting the heart. This is a regular noun–noun compound with clear cross‑linguistic equivalents (e.g. enfermedad del corazón, maladie cardiaque), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Heart disease comes from the simple idea of the heart being 'sick' or damaged. That's why Heart disease means any disease that makes the heart 'not work normally'.