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No Country For Old Pilots
A follow up on the potential heart issues, with heart disease connected to genetic issues.
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A follow up on the potential heart issues, with heart disease connected to genetic issues.
Men and women have dropped dead in the prime of their lives - eating supper on the sofa, cleaning the stove, teaching a math class. (Flying a plane?)
Newfoundlanders aren't the only ones who suffer from Type 5 Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, or ARVC. But the cluster of affected families, many of whom descend from the region's first few settlers, brought attention to the disorder after their plight was described in the New England Journal of Medicine in the 1980s. Still, ARVC is not well understood and estimates of its prevalence in the general population range from one in 1,000 people to one in 5,000.
Newfoundlanders aren't the only ones who suffer from Type 5 Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, or ARVC. But the cluster of affected families, many of whom descend from the region's first few settlers, brought attention to the disorder after their plight was described in the New England Journal of Medicine in the 1980s. Still, ARVC is not well understood and estimates of its prevalence in the general population range from one in 1,000 people to one in 5,000.
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