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Please add profiles to the specific disease or cause of death if you can.== Heart disease is a word used to describe many different conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels. ==Types==1) There are many cardiovascular diseases involving the blood vessels. They are known as vascular diseases :* Coronary artery disease (also known as coronary heart disease and ischemic heart disease) also **...
Arteriosclerosis & Atherosclerosis == Arteriosclerosis & Atherosclerosis are often interchanged but are different. * Arteriosclerosis is the thickening, hardening and loss of elasticity of the walls of arteries . Unlike atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis is a sclerosis that only affects small arteries and arterioles , which carry important nutrients and blood to the body’s organs.This process gr...
Vasculitis, also known as angiitis and arteritis, is an inflammation of the blood vessels (arteries, veins & capillaries). Arteries carry blood from your heart to your body's organs. Veins carry blood from your organs and limbs back to your heart. Capillaries connect the small arteries and veins.* “Inflammation” refers to the body’s response to injury, including injury to the blood vessels. Inf...