CORONARY HEART DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coronary heart disease mean? 

• CORONARY HEART DISEASE (noun)
  The noun CORONARY HEART DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a heart disease due to an abnormality of the arteries that supply blood and oxygen to the heart

  Familiarity information: CORONARY HEART DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORONARY HEART DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A heart disease due to an abnormality of the arteries that supply blood and oxygen to the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("coronary heart disease" is a kind of...):

cardiopathy; heart disease (a disease of the heart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coronary heart disease"):

coronary occlusion (occlusion of a coronary artery caused either by progressive atherosclerosis or by a blood clot)

coronary; coronary thrombosis (obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus))

 Context examples 

They used a technique to investigate 15 biomarkers – biological ‘red flags’ – associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease.

(Inflammation links heart disease and depression, University of Cambridge)

Cause of death included coronary heart disease, stroke, specific cancers, respiratory disease, digestive disease, external causes (including suicide and death from injury), and dementia.

(Higher IQ in Childhood Linked to Longer Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The results of the study showed that exposure to arsenic, lead, cadmium and copper – but not mercury – was associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease.

(Experts warn of cardiovascular risk from heavy metal pollution, University of Cambridge)

The increased risk of coronary heart disease and heart failure found in women with prior pregnancies, but no live born children, may reflect the increased risk previously identified after a history of miscarriage.

(Pregnancy losses and large numbers of children linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, University of Cambridge)

Drugs acting at various steps in this process can alter cholesterol metabolism and plasma cholesterol levels that contribute to coronary heart disease.

(Lipid Synthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The heart failure might have been caused by coronary heart disease, damaged heart valves or heart muscles, congenital heart defects, or viral infections of the heart.

(Heart Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

They include coronary heart disease, physical stress, and some inherited disorders.

(Cardiac Arrest, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Also, after looking at individual nut consumption, eating walnuts one or more times per week was associated with a 19 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease and 21 percent lower risk of coronary heart disease.

(Eating Regular Variety of Nuts Associated with Lower Risk of Heart Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A large team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute explored the relationship among genetic mutations, plasma triglycerides, and coronary heart disease.

(Rare mutations reduce heart disease risk, NIH)

Similarly, in the body, it could lead to increased risk of heart disease, coronary heart disease such as stroke … or Type 1 diabetes or Type 2 diabetes.

(Anti-inflammatory Drugs Also Fight Depression, Voanews)