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Living with Heart Disease One of the common heart disease is nonetheless, coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease results from a restricted suupply of blood to the heart muscle. When arteries become clogged, or narrowed, by deposits of hardened fat, cholesterol, and other substances called plague, blood does not flow through them easily. The most common type of heart attack is caused by a clockage of one of the coronary ateries by a blood clot that cuts off the blood supply to the region of the heart served by that artery. This damages or kills the deprived tiisue, and the injury is called a myocardial infarction. Angina is not a disease in its own right but is the name for pain that occurs when the muscular wall of the heart becomes temporarily short of oxygen.