Heart disease is a term covering any disorder of the heart.
Your heart is a pump. It's a muscular organ about the size of your fist, situated slightly left of center in your chest. Your heart is divided into the right and the left side. The division prevents oxygen-rich blood from mixing with oxygen-poor blood. Oxygen-poor blood returns to the heart after circulating through your body.
They don’t usually cause pain, but without regular blood flow, your body doesn’t get the oxygen it needs. If heart disease is not treated, it can cause severe angina, heart failure with shortness of breath on even mild activities. The risk of death is increased.
Defects often make your heart work harder, which can cause heart failure -- when your heart’s too weak to pump blood the way it should. That can cause problems like arrhythmia, trouble breathing, and fluid in your lungs.
The symptoms of heart disease depend on which condition is affecting an individual.
There are many types of heart disease that affect different parts of the organ and occur in different ways.
• Congenital heart disease.
• Arrhythmia.
• Coronary artery disease.
• Dilated cardiomyopathy.
• Myocardial infarction.
• Heart failure.
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
• Mitral regurgitation.
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