Pete Rose's cause of death has been announced

The cause of death of baseball legend Pete Rose is known.

Rose, MLB's all-time hits leader who was banned from baseball in 1989 for attending Cincinnati Reds games as manager, died Monday at age 83, the Reds confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.

The Clark County (Nevada) coroner's office confirmed to The Cincinnati Enquirer, part of the USA TODAY Network, that Rose died of hypertension and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. According to the Mayo Clinic, high blood pressure, commonly known as high blood pressure, forces the heart to work harder to pump blood as the blood pushes on artery walls, while atherosclerosis is a heart disease in which a buildup of plaque blocks blood flow.