2007-03-28 10:37:12 · 5 answers · asked by 1235 6 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Not per se. You can have a viral infection that causes cardiomyopathy and that viral infection may be infectious - but two people in the same house could have the same virus and it causes cardiomyopathy in one person but not another. It has to do with a host of variables including a particular genetic susceptibility for one person but not another.
So you can not catch cardiomyopathy from another person but you could catch the virus that caused a person's cardiomyopathy - whether you might actually get cardiomyopathy too is highly unlikely. But of course if you have some reason to think maybe you did - get it checked out. It is an important diagnosis to make.
2007-03-28 11:10:25 · answer #1 · answered by c_schumacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cause of cardiomyopathy are many;1) infection disease;virural;such as HIV,Lyme disease and other virus.2)due to heart attack lack of oxygen supply.3)hypertension.4)Diabetic illness.5)toxic;such alcoholism.and much more.Every one understand that aid is infectious disease and contagious So hardly just say cardiomyopathy is infectious disease or not.
2007-03-28 13:35:19 · answer #2 · answered by brother3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cardiomyopathy is not exactly a disease. Sometimes disease causes it but it is dysfunction of the muscle of the heart pump action.
2007-03-28 10:57:02 · answer #3 · answered by yudavilla 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's a heart disease.
2007-03-28 10:44:13 · answer #4 · answered by First Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope, heart diseases and conditions are not contagious.
2007-03-28 10:40:30 · answer #5 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋