Heart Disease. Heart Failure. Heart Attack. Cardiac Arrest. Exactly what do all these terms mean and how do they differ?
A Cooper cardiologist explains: “Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of complex problems affecting the heart muscle, the blood vessels in the heart, and the veins and arteries leading to and from the heart. While all of the many types of heart disease differ, one can think of them in a simplified way as conditions that affect the rhythm and blood-flow of the heart,” said Perry J. Weinstock, M.D., Head of the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at Cooper University Hospital.
