Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a kind of disease that involves the heart or blood vessels.^[1] Cardiovascular disease includes coronary artery diseases (CAD) such as angina and myocardial infarction (commonly known as a heart attack).^[1] Other CVDs are stroke, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation, congenital heart disease, endocarditis, aortic aneurysms, and peripheral artery disease.^[1]

Cardiovascular disease
Classification and external resources
Micrograph of a heart with fibrosis (yellow) and amyloidosis (brown). Movat's stain.
ICD-10	I51.6
ICD-9	429.2
DiseasesDB	28808
MeSH	D002318