Lesson 8 (Diseases of the Heart)

Question 1

Diseases of the arteries that supply the heart with blood

Answer 1

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

Question 2

One of the most common forms of heart disease and the leading cause of heart attacks

Answer 2

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

Question 3

What is the other term for Chest pain?

Answer 3

Angina

Question 4

What is the other term for Heart attack?

Answer 4

myocardial infarction

Question 5

Is the disease of the heart itself caused by the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls of the arteries that supply the myocardium

Answer 5

Coronary Heart Disease

Question 6

Another disease of the heart itself, characterized by reduced blood supply to the organ

Answer 6

Ischemic Heart disease

Question 7

A sub-umbrella term for a number of diseases that affect the heart itself and/or the blood vessels system.

Answer 7

Cardiovascular disease

Question 8

A failure of the right side of the heart

Answer 8

Pulmonary Heart disease

Question 9

Heart disease caused by unavoidable genetic factors

Answer 9

Hereditary Heart disease

Question 10

Heart disease caused by high blood pressure

Answer 10

Hypertensive heart disease

Question 11

Heart disease that involves inflammation of the heart muscle and/or the tissues around it

Answer 11

Inflammatory Heart disease

Question 12

Heart disease that affects the valves of the heart

Answer 12

Valvular heart disease

Question 13

These are the diseases of the sac that encases the heart

Answer 13

Pericardial disease

Question 14

These are forms of heart disease that develop before birth

Answer 14

Congenital Heart Disease