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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.
Coarctation of the aorta: A treatable narrowed blood vessel Coarctation of the aorta is a heart defect resulting in a narrowing of the aorta, the blood vessel that delivers oxygen-rich blood to your body.

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HEART DISEASE


Sep 5, 2008