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By Mayo Clinic staff

If left untreated, small vessel disease can cause your heart to pump harder to provide oxygen-rich blood to your body when you're active or emotionally stressed. The lack of proper blood supply to your heart puts you at increased risk of coronary artery spasm, heart attack, sudden cardiac death and heart failure.

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