Is an irregular heart beat considered heart disease?

I really doubt it, It is called an arrhythmia of the heart. And I have alot, I don't know if it's because of stress or my high cholesterol. But I have a blood pressure machine at home & it shows the little warning sign for abnormal heart beats, I've had them diagnosed at the hospital too. The ER just told me to go to cardiologist, my cardiologist didn't say much about it. So no, I don't think it's a heart disease....might be a sign of some sort of heart disease though. Get it checked out.

Good luck!

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it depends on how often you have the irregular heart beat for example this summer I was playing softball and had an irregular heart beat that was 160 beats per min. so I had to get rushed to the emergany room so it kinda depends on how often you have it (in case if you're wondering i didn't end up haveing a heart disease)

hope this helped!

No. I have an irregular heart beat, had it checked out by the doctor and he said it was normal for me, probably born with it. It is "functional, normal".

Do get it checked out if you have one, just to be sure there isn't something more serious going on,.

Arrhythmias are considered heart disorders, not really heart disease.

Heart disease usually refers to symptoms that cause the heart to not function properly due to damage of the heart muscle, valves, or arteries.

Check out this link, it may help explain better

http://www.hrspatients.org/patients/heart_disorder...

I wonder. You have been to the vet, had blood tests and the like done, (I don't believe you), and the expert has come up with no diagnosis, so you think "I know, I'll ask on yahoo answers, the people there know much more than my expert vet does and can give me a cyber diagnosis without seeing the test results or even seeing the animal". I knew we were good but not that good!