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Cardiovascular disease includes conditions that affect the structures or function of your heart, such as: 1  Coronary artery disease (narrowing of the arteries) 2  Heart attack. 3  Abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias.  Heart 1  failure. Heart valve disease.  Congenital heart 1  disease. Heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy)  Pericardial disease.
Circulatory system diseases. Atherosclerosisâ Literally, âhardening of the fatty stuff.â High fat diets can lead to formation of fatty plaques lining blood vessels. These fatty areas can become calcified and hard leading to arteriosclerosis, hardening of the arteries. When blood vessels become less stretchable, blood pressure rises and can result in heart and kidney damage and strokes.