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Heart Disease Quiz

How much do you know about heart disease?

In the United States, 500 people die of cardiovascular disease every day.

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Heart disease may be linked to a variety of risk factors, some of them controllable (such as diet and lifestyle), others uncontrollable (such as heredity and advancing age).

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Scientists have yet to determine which lifestyle factors, if any, affect heart disease.

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Symptoms of a heart problem can include chest pain -- either tight and suffocating, or sharp and piercing -- and the feeling that the heart is fluttering, thumping, pounding or racing.

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Women should be just as concerned about their own risk of coronary heart disease as they are about their husbands', fathers', and sons' risk. It's not just a man's disease.

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Reviewed by Matthew Hoffman, MD on October 28, 2008

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SOURCES: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics -- 2003 Update, American Heart Association. The Merck Manual, Centennial edition.

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