Types of Heart Diseases

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Across
  1. 2. usually caused by high blood pressure or coronary artery disease
  2. 7. also known as a myocardial infarction
  3. 9. fluid forms around the heart that can impair heart function
  4. 12. is a thickening of the walls of the heart
  5. 16. can cause a backward leakage in your heart
Down
  1. 1. the rarest form of heart- muscle disease; the walls of the lower chambers of the heart are abnormally rigid and lack flexibility to expand as the ventricles fill with blood
  2. 3. a condition in which the heart's ability to pump blood is decreased because the heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, is enlarged and weakened
  3. 4. cause of half of all heart disease deaths
  4. 5. caused by blood flowing through healthy valves or damaged and overworked valves
  5. 6. the most common kind of irregular heart beat
  6. 8. an inherited genetic defect weakens connective tissues
  7. 10. when your heart does not keep a good beat
  8. 11. a common heart disease that people are born with
  9. 12. irregular heart rhythms can cause the pumping function of the heart to fail
  10. 13. the inflammation of the thin tissue sac that surrounds the heart
  11. 14. is a progressive heart disease which the heart is abnormally enlarged, thickened, and/or rigid
  12. 15. is America's No. 1 killer, affecting more than 13 million Americans