Concept information
Preferred term
heart diseases
Definition
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Approximately 16.7 million people die from heart disease each year, with coronary heart disease killing more than 7 million people. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Heart Diseases]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- arrhythmia
- arrhythmias, cardiac
- carcinoid heart disease
- cardiac output, high
- cardiac output, low
- cardiac tamponade
- cardiomegaly
- cardiomyopathies
- congestive heart failure
- disordered action of heart
- endocarditis
- heart aneurysm
- heart arrest
- heart defects, congenital
- heart enlargement
- heart failure
- heart neoplasms
- heart rupture
- heart valve diseases
- myocardial diseases
- myocardial ischemia
- pericardial effusion
- pericarditis
- pneumopericardium
- postpericardiotomy syndrome
- pulmonary heart disease
- rheumatic heart disease
- ventricular dysfunction
- ventricular outflow obstruction
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-RLQM8XM1-B
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