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is there a difference between coronary heart disease, heart disease and coronary disease

is there a difference between coronary heart disease, heart disease and coronary disease ?
if coronary = heart why do we have terms like "coronary heart disease"?
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Coronary disease refers to disease of the coronary arteries (which supply the heart with blood) while heart disease could refer to a wide variety of conditions, such as an enlarged heart or an arrythmia.
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"Coronary" refers to the two arterial blood supply arteries of the heart. Therefore, any person who has been diagnosed as having coronary heart disease has a disease involving the arterial blood supply to the heart muscle. In this case the most common associated diagnosis is atherosclerosis...clogging of the arteries. A diagnosis of "heart disease" may include coronary heart disease, but it is not limited to that. Their are other diseases like cardiomyopathy, cardiomegaly, heart failure, heart valvular disease, heart rhythm diseases like persistent atrial fibrillation, sick sinus disease, ventral septal defect, etc.
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