Can you get heart problems despite a healthy lifestyle?
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Is it possible to have heart problems, even if you live a healthy lifestyle? Or to avoid heart problems, even if you don't live a healthy lifestyle?But, even then, a healthy lifestyle lowers your risk of heart problems. And, yes, there are people who live to a hundred without heart disease, despite an unhealthy lifestyle. Most likely, they had the luck to be born with "good" genes that protect them from heart disease.
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