heart disease
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of heart disease
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Yet Drs. Makary and Prasad didn’t seem to understand that the risk-benefit assessment for approving drugs for deadly diseases must be different.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Researchers, he said, are leaving the government, the country or even the field -- potentially creating major gaps in the development pipeline for treatments of deadly diseases.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026
Lim notes that these findings have direct relevance for people facing often deadly diseases caused by shortened telomeres, including aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia.
From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2025
How did 3,000 people lose their lives to deadly diseases in blood?
From BBC • May 9, 2024
As a result, hundreds of millions of people were now susceptible to getting yellow fever and other deadly diseases carried by Aedes aegypti.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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