heart disease

NOUN

disease of the heart

Synonyms

STRONGEST

angina congestive heart failure

WEAK

cardiac infarction congenital heart disease coronary thrombosis ischemic heart disease myocardial infarction

Example Sentences

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Residents living in these areas are advised to stay indoors where possible — especially people with respiratory or heart disease, elderly individuals and children.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Stress, they warned, was aggravating her heart disease, diabetes and blood pressure.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

In 2026, kidney experts highlighted projections suggesting that chronic kidney disease deaths could keep rising in the decades ahead, even as deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease are expected to fall sharply.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

The discovery could eventually lead to new treatments for heart disease and fatty liver disease.

From Science Daily • May 25, 2026

Smoking is without doubt a significant contributory cause of cancer, lung and heart disease, but there are confounding factors having to do with life-style and environment which partially obscured this fact for some years.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos