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Cardiomyopathy is a disease that damages the muscle tone of the heart and reduces its ability to pump blood to the rest of the body. Cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of heart failure and the most common reason for needing a heart transplant.<\/p>\n

Cardiomyopathy is so dangerous because it often goes unrecognized and untreated. Also, it is different from other heart problems because it frequently affects younger people.<\/p>\n

Cardiomyopathies cause symptoms including shortness of breath, chest pain, fainting, dizziness and a reduced ability to exercise.\u00a0 In addition, people with cardiomyopathy are at increased risk of abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Physicians classify cardiomyopathies in a number of ways, and over the years, the definition of cardiomyopathy has evolved. In 2006, the American Heart Association offered a new definition for cardiomyopathy that generally grouped cardiomyopathies into two categories: primary, which are essentially limited to the heart, and secondary, which are caused by disease in other organ systems.<\/p>\n

For example, a cardiomyopathy that is caused by coronary artery disease is a primary cardiomyopathy (as well as an ischemic cardiomyopathy), while a cardiomyopathy caused by an autoimmune disorder is a secondary cardiomyopathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cardiomyopathy is a disease that damages the muscle tone of the heart and reduces its ability to pump blood to the rest of the body. Cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of heart failure and the most common reason for needing a heart transplant. Cardiomyopathy is so dangerous because it often goes unrecognized and untreated. Also,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279,"parent":29,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawheart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawheart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawheart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawheart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawheart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawheart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawheart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawheart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawheart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawheart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}