I need a diesase of the heart? is heart attack one?

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ITS FOR SCHOOL!!

Answer 1

--No. A heart attack is a coronary event--muscular and/or vascular. It is brought on by any number of underlying causes that get lumped into the catch-all of "heart disease" (I know--I've had two).

A true heart disease which may interest you, and is very recently recognized as a legitimate medical diagnosis, is micro-vascular disease. More women than men have it....and very interestingly, a woman's heart attack symptoms are usually different than a man's. I believe there is a direct correlation between more women than men having micro-vascular disease and the "non-male" symptoms experienced and reported by most women during a heart attack.

Start your research at the American Heart Association website and follow links from there. If you do choose microvascular disease, be sure to use "coronary micro vascular disease" in the search box, because there are many micro vessels in the body that are NOT related to the heart. Also spell it with and without a space and with and without a hyphen. There's no consensus on the correct spelling yet.

Good luck.

Answer 2

I presume you are talking about needing a subject in which to discuss or study. A heart attack is not necessarily a heart disease rather it is the result of inadequate blood supply getting to the heart muscle causing the tissue to die. There are several reasons why the heart muscle may be starved from blood supply. Having coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common reason and that is a disease of the heart. If you don't care for that one, cardiomyopathy is another disease of the heart. Good luck on your paper. Try the Mayo Clinic's web site as a good first stepping stone - look under "health information" off of their main web site.

Answer 3

Heart attack is not a name of a disease. A heart attack is a name of some that happen to you. Ischemia means that the flow of blood and therefore oxygen to a part of the body has been reduced:Cardiac ischemia means not enough blood and oxygen are flowing into the heart muscle, which can severely damage it and lead to a heart attack.
Coronary Artery Disease is a heart disease.

Answer 4

A heart attack is not a disease in itself but a symptom or result of a disease.
One disease related to the heart is angina pectoris, a chest pain or discomfort that occurs when your heart muscle does not get enough blood flow.

Answer 5

Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of different diseases which affect the heart. The most common heart diseases are:

Coronary heart disease, a disease of the heart itself caused by the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls of the arteries that supply the myocardium
Ischaemic heart disease, another disease of the heart itself, characterized by reduced blood supply to the organ.
Cardiovascular disease, a sub-umbrella term for a number of diseases that that affect the heart itself and/or the blood vessel system, especially the veins and arteries leading to and from the heart. Research on disease dimorphism suggests that women who suffer with cardivascular disease usually suffer from forms that afflct the blood vessels while men usually suffer from forms that affect the heart muscle itself. Well known causes of cardivascular disease include diabetes mellitas, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia.
Pulmonary heart disease, a failure of the right side of the heart.
Hereditary heart disease, heart disease caused by inavoidable genetic factors
Hypertensive heart disease, heart disease caused by high blood pressure, especially localised high blood pressure
Inflammatory heart disease, heart disease that involves inflamation of the heart muscle and/or the tissue surrounding it.
Valvular heart disease, heart disease that affects the valves of the heart.

Answer 6

Cardio Myopathy (sp?)

Answer 7

Not really, how about congestive heart failure?? CHF

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_disease

Answer 9

heart disease.