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Find information on heart attack, congestive heart failure and other heart diseases.


What is heart disease?

The basics of heart disease, how heart disease is diagnosed, heart disease screening tests, heart disease risk factors and heart disease prevention.

Treating heart disease

Explore heart disease treatments for specific types of heart disease.

Living and coping with heart disease

Strategies to keep heart disease at bay.
Left ventricular hypertrophy: When heart muscle thickens Left ventricular hypertrophy, thickening of the wall of your heart's main pumping chamber, increases your risk of cardiovascular diseases.

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HEART DISEASE


Jan 8, 2009