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For my disease research I chose Heart Disease .So I’m going to tell first what causes it. What causes it? To cause HD (Heart Disease) it might be in your gene if not you could be eating fatty foods, an unhealthy diet, and lack of exercise, being fat, and lastly smoking 1. Symptoms Some symptoms of HD are chest pain (Angina), shortness of breath, pain, numbness, weakness or coldness 1. How Do You Treat It? First to treat it you should stop smoking, control other health issues such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and Diabetes. To keep it away you should exercise a lot, try not to eat salty foods, and keep a healthy weight 1. A Cure? There is no cure at the time for Heart Disease but there are treatments like medicine and surgery to help your heart. Fun Facts · Every 34 seconds a person in the US dies of heart disease · More than 2500 people in the US die a day · 250,000 die a in a year before reaching a hospital Since 1900 Heart Disease has been the number 1 killer in the US except 1918. 2 By ANDREW GOUGH Key: 1=www.mayoclinic.com/health/heartdisease/DSO1120/Dsection=causes 2=www.kidshealth.org/kid/conditions/heart disease