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What is heart disease?

The basics of heart disease, how heart disease is diagnosed, heart disease screening tests, heart disease risk factors and heart disease prevention.

Explore heart disease treatments for specific types of heart disease.

Strategies to keep heart disease at bay.

Coarctation of the aorta: A treatable narrowed blood vessel Coarctation of the aorta is a heart defect resulting in a narrowing of the aorta, the blood vessel that delivers oxygen-rich blood to your body.

Mayo Clinic hypertension specialist Sheldon Sheps, M.D., and colleagues answer select questions from readers. see more Q&A ...