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What does degenerative heart disease mean.... im googling it but it wont tell me, keeps refering to conjestive heart disease?
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Generic term: Degenerative heart disease refers to all the changes that occur with aging in contrast to (for example) due to infection, trauma, auto-immune diseases, cancer, etc. It can take many forms, but 2 common manifestations are aortic sclerosis and mitral annular calcification. There are many others.
Answered 5/10/2015
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