Synonyms for cardiovascular disease
car·dio·vas·cu·lar dis·ease

Princeton's WordNet

1. cardiovascular diseasenoun

   a disease of the heart or blood vessels

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1. Jennifer Sumner:

   Women who have PTSD should be aware they are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke.

2. David Weinberg:

   For those persons already at higher risk for cardiovascular disease, on balance aspirin is a good idea to reduce cardiovascular disease risk alone, however, it appears it will also reduce colorectal cancer risk at the same time, which represents a benefit with little or no additional risk if aspirin is already indicated.

3. Barbara Roberts:

   I believe you will see doctors come around to this quickly, hypertension is such a strong risk factor for cardiovascular disease, far greater than cholesterol and everything that will allow us to treat this more effectively is important.

4. Vesna Garovic:

   We know that cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in women, but we don’t know a lot about sex-specific factors, hypertension in pregnancy is an opportunity to identify these women early.

5. Jon Goulding:

   A screen for cardiovascular risk factors( e.g. diabetes, hypertension etc.) is crucial to pick up those which could be treated, to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke patients with psoriasis already carry a higher than average risk of cardiovascular disease, so they should strictly follow standard public health advice about maintaining a healthy body weight and exercise levels, stop smoking, and reduce alcohol intake.