What is heart disease?

What is heart disease?

Cardiovascular disease (heart disease) refers to a group of diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels of your body. These diseases can affect one or many parts of your heart and /or blood vessels. A person may be symptomatic (physically experience the disease) or be asymptomatic (not feel anything at all).

Heart disease includes heart or blood vessel problems of these types:

• Abnormal heart rhythms.
• Heart valve disease.
• Narrowing of the blood vessels in your heart, other organs or throughout your body with plaque.
• Heart squeezing and relaxation difficulties.
• Heart and blood vessel problems that you’re born with.
• Problems with your heart’s outer lining.