Archive for February, 2010

Types and Symptoms Of Heart Valve Disease

There are two types of heart valve disease–heart disease resulting from narrowed heart valves, and heart disease resulting from leaky heart valves. Each of them stems from several different causes, ranging from birth defects, to bacterial infection, to aging. Congential Heart Valve Disease Congenital heart valve is the most common, and can result in inflexible [...]

Can Heart Disease Be Treated?

Close to 70 million people have heart disease and it is the nations leading killer. Roughly 900,000 heart attacks and strokes occur each year, so heart disease is the leading health threat to Americans. What Is Heart Disease? Heart disease is any problem that impairs the structure or function of the heart, such as hypertensive [...]