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Is it possible to develop congestive heart failure by age 26?
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Yes can happen: Drug induced with Cocaine and methamphetamine overdoses; structural heart disease like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy causing hear failure; connective tissue disease causing cardiomyopathy; neuromuscular disorders like advance muscular dystrophy causing cardiomyopathy. Just few examples.
Answered 6/24/2014
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