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Disease of the arteries surrounding the heart?

Coronary heart disease, cad


What are the diseases that the heart would have?

The disease that is best known for affecting the heart is simply called heart disease. Heart disease is caused by a blockage in the arteries, which can often lead to a heart attack.


What is the relationship between ed and heart disease?

Heart disease atheroscerosis is narrowing of the arteries.


What type of heart failure is caused by a blockage of blood flow to the heart muscles?

That would probably be coronary heart disease. Seeing as though the arteries that feed the heart muscle/the myocardium, with blood are called the coronary arteries.


IS the heart chmabers called arteries and veins?

The heart chambers are not called arteries and veins. Heart chambers are atria and ventricles.


What heart disease is the result of reduced blood flow to the heart caused by the build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries.?

Coronary Heart disease caused by atherosclerosis or the build-up of plaque on the inner walls of the arteries.


What heart disease is the result of reduced blood flow to the heart caused by the build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries?

Heart disease typically does not cause fatty deposits in the arteries. Rather the process is the other way around: an unhealthy diet high in fat and cholesterol causes a build up of fatty deposits, and these deposits lead to heart diseases such as Coronary Heart Disease.


What are the arteries supplying blood to the heart called?

coronary arteries


The most common cause of heart disease is?

The most common heart disease would be coronary heart disease (CDH). It is caused by the shrinking of your arteries, which limits the blood flow to your heart, causing it to not receive enough blood. This can be caused by buildup of plaques (cholesterol and fatty deposits) on the interior walls of the arteries leading to your heart. This process is called atherosclerosis. Subsequently the heart cannot get enough oxygen and nutrients through the blood, causing it to fail.


Is the heart chambers called arteries and veins?

The heart chambers are called atria and ventricles. Arteries and veins are blood vessels.


What are the blood vessels leading away from the heart called?

Arteries. Because the capilaries connect the arteries to the vein as Veins carries blood back to the heart.


What is the worst fat you can get?

fat from meat it can stick to your arteries and to your heart and give you heart disease which kills you