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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) affects an estimated 600,000 to 1.5 million Americans, or one in 500 people. It is a complex type of heart disease that affects the heart muscle, causing thickening of...
View ArticleScreen Your Teens for Heart Muscle Disease
Sometimes the first symptom of the heart muscle disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is sudden cardiac death, and some of its most tragic victims are teenagers and young adults. HCM is a complex...
View ArticleIs Heart Disease In Your Genes?
Do you wonder why some smokers develop heart disease, but others don’t? Or how someone who thrives on burgers and fries can live to be 90, when a vegetarian has a heart attack at 40? The answer may be...
View ArticleHypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: When Your Heart’s Too Big
This blog item is based on a series of articles produced by STACK (www.stack.com) in association with experts at Cleveland Clinic’s Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute (HVI), including Dermot...
View ArticleHeart Transplant Patients Enjoying Longer Lives
In 2014, the Cleveland Clinic’s Cardiac Transplant Program marked its 30th anniversary, having performed more than 1,600 heart transplants in that time. About 4,000 heart transplantation procedures are...
View ArticleChest Pain in Young Athletes: When You Should Be Concerned (Video)
By Heart & Vascular Team. You’re young. You’re an athlete. So why does your chest hurt? After all, don’t heart problems strike older, less active people? Most of the time, that’s true. But no one...
View ArticleScreen Your Teens for Heart Muscle Disease
Sometimes the first symptom of the heart muscle disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is sudden cardiac death, and some of its most tragic victims are teenagers and young adults. HCM is a complex...
View ArticleIs Heart Disease In Your Genes?
Do you wonder why some smokers develop heart disease, but others don’t? Or how someone who thrives on burgers and fries can live to be 90, when a vegetarian has a heart attack at 40? The answer may be...
View ArticleHypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: When Your Heart’s Too Big
This blog item is based on a series of articles produced by STACK (www.stack.com) in association with experts at Cleveland Clinic’s Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute (HVI), including Dermot...
View ArticleHeart Transplant Patients Enjoying Longer Lives
In 2014, the Cleveland Clinic’s Cardiac Transplant Program marked its 30th anniversary, having performed more than 1,600 heart transplants in that time. About 4,000 heart transplantation procedures are...
View ArticleChest Pain in Young Athletes: When You Should Be Concerned (Video)
By Heart & Vascular Team. You’re young. You’re an athlete. So why does your chest hurt? After all, don’t heart problems strike older, less active people? Most of the time, that’s true. But no one...
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