Date:6/18/2008

severe form of the disease have trouble breathing because the heart cannot pump fluid out of their lungs. Seventy percent die of the disease within 10 years, and the five-year survival rate is less than 50 percent. Heart failure is the only cardiovascular disease whose incidence has been increasing rather than decreasing.

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Contact: Belinda Mager bem9040@nyp.org 212-305-5587 New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center Source:Eurekalert

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