cardiovascular disease

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Noun

cardiovascular disease (countable and uncountable, plural cardiovascular diseases, abbreviation CVD)

2. A disease involving the heart or blood vessels, i.e. arteries and veins, such as coronary heart disease.

   Alternative form: CVD (initialism)

   Hypernyms: disease < condition

   Hyponyms: ASCVD, atherosclerosis, CHD, coronary heart disease, IHD, ischemic heart disease, CAD, coronary artery disease, CHD, congenital heart disease

   Near-synonym: heart disease

   • 2022 September 14, Jacqueline Howard, “Study finds potential link between daily multivitamin and improved cognition in older adults”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2023:

     Taking a daily multivitamin might be associated with improved brain function in older adults, a new study says, and the benefit appears to be greater for those with a history of cardiovascular disease.

Translations

disease involving the heart or blood vessels

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心血管疾病 (zh) (xīnxuèguǎn jíbìng)

• Esperanto: korvaskula malsano
• Finnish: sydän- ja verisuonitaudit pl
• French: maladie cardiovasculaire f
• German: Herz-Kreislauferkrankung f, Herz-Kreislauf-Krankheit
• Greek: καρδιαγγειακή πάθηση f (kardiangeiakí páthisi)
• Japanese: 心血管疾患 (しんけっかんしっかん, shinkekkan shikkan)
• Kazakh: жүрек-қан тамырлары ауруы (jürek-qan tamırları awruwı)
• Polish: choroba układu krążenia f
• Russian: серде́чно-сосу́дистое заболева́ние n (serdéčno-sosúdistoje zabolevánije)
• Ukrainian: серце́во-суди́нне захво́рювання n (sercévo-sudýnne zaxvórjuvannja)
• Vietnamese: bệnh tim mạch