Potentially deadly heart condition plagues family members around same age

Thursday, August 25, 2016 - 14:31 in Health & Medicine

People with a family member who had an aortic dissection—a spontaneous tear in one of the body’s main arteries—should take note of the age that family member was when the aortic dissection occurred. According to a new study, aortic dissections have the potential to run in families and often occur within 10 years of the same age.

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