Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) causes pulmonary hypertension and is signified by the presence of multiple organized occlusive thrombi in the pulmonary artery.
CVD is the commonest cause of death in transplant patients with a surviving graft, more so than infection or malignancy.
Acute myocarditis is correlated with cardiac arrhythmia in 25% of cases; ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) constitute a third of these arrhythmias.
Heart failure has a prevalence of 1–2% in developed countries which increases with age.
Heritability of CAD is estimated to be around 40% and is mainly the result of numerous common SNPs throughout the genome each of small effect size.
Hypertension is the main cause of stroke and cardiovascular disease and carries substantial health and economic burden globally. It is a growing problem in South Africa, where more than 25 percent of adults older than age thirty-five are hypertensive, and hypertension-related causes of death are estimated to account for three of the top ten causes of death.
