Heart disease
Heart disease: Introduction
Further information about Heart disease is below, or review more specific
information about these types of Heart disease:
Infective endocarditis, Congenital heart diseases, Coronary heart disease, Constrictive pericarditis
or other types.
Heart disease: Any disease that affects that heart but particularly relating to its own blood supply.
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See detailed information below for a list of 52
causes of Heart disease, including diseases and drug side effect causes.
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Causes of Heart disease
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Causes of Types of Heart disease:
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types for Heart disease
Heart disease: Symptom Checker
Listed below are some combinations of symptoms associated with Heart disease, as listed in our database.
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Heart disease Treatments
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Causes of General Symptom Types
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Causes of Similar Symptoms to Heart disease
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Diagnostic Guides for Heart disease
Medical Books Excerpts
Read excertps from published book sections related to Heart disease
from the following published medical books
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Medical Books Excerpts
- Cardiomegaly
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
- [ read ]
Copyright notice for book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Heart disease: Self Assessment Tools
Heart disease: Medical Mistakes
Heart disease: Undiagnosed Conditions
Conditions that are commonly undiagnosed in related areas may include:
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Misdiagnosis and Heart disease
Heart attacks can be undiagnosed: Although the most severe symptoms of heart attack are hard to miss,
there are varying degrees of severity.
It is altogether too common for people to die from undiagnosed heart attack, or from delaying too long
to call for...read more »
Heart attacks can be overdiagnosed: Although many people die from heart attacks, there are also
many cases where people fear that they have a heart attack, but actually have something milder.
Some of the conditions which may be causes of chest pain, causing fear of a...read more »
Rare undiagnosed iron disorder causes various severe conditions: The rare "iron overload" disorder, hemochromatosis,
can cause a variety of symptoms and result in various severe conditions that mimic several
of the big name...read more »
Rare heart condition often undiagnosed: The rare heart condition called long QT syndrome can lead to episodes of palpitations
and rapid heartbeat.
In rare cases, this undiagnosed condition can be fatal.
It should be...read more »
Heart attack can be over-diagnosed: Although heart attack is often undiagnosed,
leading to fatality, it can also be over-diagnosed.
People become...read more »
Blood pressure cuffs misdiagnose hypertension in children: One known misdiagnosis issue
with hyperension, arises in relation to the simple equipment used to test...read more »
Hypertension misdiagnosis common in children: Hypertension is often
misdiagnosed in adults (see misdiagnosis of hypertension), but its misdiagnosis...read more »
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Heart disease: Related Rare Diseases
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Home Diagnostic Testing and Heart disease
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Videos for Heart disease
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We've all experienced stress at one time or another. Your heart rate goes up, your blood pressure rises, and every part of your body tenses up....
Heart disease kills 32 percent of women each year, meaning that more women than men die from heart disease. Tune in to learn the facts about women...
Everyone knows that a good night's sleep makes you feel better the next day. But did you know that how long you sleep might be a factor in heart...
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Medications or substances causing Heart disease:
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible
causes of Heart disease as a symptom.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
See full list of 2
medications causing Heart disease
Drug interactions causing Heart disease:
When combined, certain drugs, medications, substances or toxins may react
causing Heart disease as a symptom.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
- Semprex-D and over-the-counter drugs that relieve cold symptoms interaction
- Trinalin Repetabs and over-the-counter drugs that relieve cold symptoms interaction
- Brofed Liquid and over-the-counter drugs that relieve cold symptoms interaction
- Bromfed and over-the-counter drugs that relieve cold symptoms interaction
- Bromfed-PD and over-the-counter drugs that relieve cold symptoms interaction
- more interactions...»
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drug interactions causing Heart disease
Definitions of Heart disease:
Heart disease: cardiophobia.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
A disease of the heart
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Detailed list of causes of Heart disease
The list below shows some of the causes of Heart disease mentioned in various sources:
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causes of Heart disease
How Common are these Causes of Heart disease?
This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases,
not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Heart disease.
Of the 52
causes of Heart disease that
we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
- 5
causes are "very common" diseases
- 3
causes are "common" diseases
- 1
causes are "uncommon" diseases
- 1
causes are "rare" diseases
- 3
causes are "very rare" diseases
- 46
causes have no prevalence information.
See the analysis of the prevalence of 52
causes of Heart disease
Conditions listing symptoms: Heart disease:
The following list of conditions
have 'Heart disease' or similar
listed as a symptom in our database.
This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause
of any symptom.
C
Cataract and cardiomyopathy
... heart diseaseCleft palate - heart disease - polydactyly - absent tibia
... heart diseaseColobomatous microphthalmia - heart disease - hearing loss
... heart diseaseCongenital heart disease - radio ulnar synostosis - mental retardation
... heart diseaseD
Diffuse systemic sclerosi
... heart diseaseE
Ectrodactyly - cardiopathy - dysmorphism
... heart diseaseEye defects - arachnodactyly - cardiopathy
... heart diseaseF
Fetal indomethacin syndrome
... heart diseaseG
Genital anomaly - cardiomyopathy
... heart diseaseH
HEC syndrome
... heart diseaseI
Infantile spasms - broad thumbs
... heart diseaseK
Kearns-Sayre Syndrome
... heart diseaseL
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1E
... heart diseaseM
Malouf syndrome
... heart diseaseMetabolic disorders
... heart diseaseMucopolysaccharidoses
... heart diseaseMucopolysaccharidosis 1
... heart diseaseMucopolysaccharidosis type 2 Hunter syndrome- mild form
... coronary diseaseN
Naxos disease
... heart diseaseNoonan-like syndrome
... heart diseaseP
Penoscrotal transposition
... heart diseasePhenobarbital antenatal infection
... heart diseaseS
Sneddon Syndrome
... heart diseaseSyphilis
... heart diseaseT
Triose phosphate-isomerase deficiency
... heart diseaseTrisomy 10 mosaicism
... heart diseaseTsao-Ellingson syndrome
... heart disease
Conditions listing complications: Heart disease:
The following list of conditions
have 'Heart disease' or similar
listed as a complication in our database.
The distinction between a symptom and complication is not always clear,
and conditions mentioning this symptom as a complication may also be relevant.
This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause
of any symptom.
A
Atherosclerosis
... heart diseaseC
Conn's adenoma
... heart diseaseConn's syndrome
... heart diseaseConn-Louis Carcinoma
... heart diseaseD
Dermatomyositis
... heart diseaseDiabetes
... heart diseaseF
Friedreich's ataxia
... heart diseaseH
Hemochromatosis
... Heart diseaseHereditary hypothyroidism
... Heart diseaseHigh Cholesterol
... heart diseaseHis bundle tachycardia
... heart diseaseHypertension
... heart diseaseK
Kawasaki disease
... heart diseaseM
Medication related hypothyroidism
... Heart diseaseMenopause
... heart diseaseN
Nicotine addiction
... heart diseaseP
Paget's disease of bone
... heart diseasePhysical inactivity
... heart diseasePrimary hypothyroidism
... Heart diseaseProgeria
... coronary diseaseS
Smoking
... heart diseaseT
Type 1 diabetes
... heart diseaseType 2 diabetes
... heart diseaseU
Underweight
... heart diseaseX
X-linked sideroblastic anemia
... heart disease
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Causes of Heart disease Based on Risk Factors
This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Heart disease based
on whether certain risk factors apply to the patient:
Travel - has the patient travelled recently?
Diabetes - history of diabetes or family history of diabetes?
Classifications of Heart disease:
Medical Conditions associated with Heart disease:
Heart symptoms (2438 causes)
Symptoms related to Heart disease:
Chest pain (785 causes), Chest tightness (120 causes), Angina (30 causes), Heart symptoms (2438 causes), Myocardial infarction (1 cause), MI, Myocardial ischemia, Coronary artery disease, Atherosclerosis (11 causes), Hypertension (255 causes), Angioplasty, Angiography, Valvular dysfunction, Arrhythmias (124 causes), Fibrillations, Flutter, ECG, Treadmill test, Ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, tetrology of fallot
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Medical News summaries about Heart disease
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