Medical Definition of Cardiac risk

1. A term to describe overall risk of developing heart disease (blockage of the coronary arteries). Typical risk factors include: diabetes, high blood pressure, prior heart attack, high cholesterol, obesity, smoking and a family history for heart attacks in parents or siblings. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardiac Risk

cardiac notch
cardiac notch of left lung
cardiac oedema
cardiac opening
cardiac orifice
cardiac output
cardiac pacemaker
cardiac part of stomach
cardiac plexus
cardiac polyp
cardiac prominence
cardiac reserve
cardiac resuscitation
cardiac rhabdomyoma
cardiac rhythm
cardiac risk (current term)
cardiac segment
cardiac shock
cardiac skeleton
cardiac souffle
cardiac sound
cardiac sphincter
cardiac standstill
cardiac surgical procedures
cardiac symphysis
cardiac syncope
cardiac tamponade
cardiac tamponades
cardiac tube
cardiac valve

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