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Mashup Score: 4Home - 5 day(s) ago
While I have had many great opportunities, I have faced certain career struggles as a survivor and a person with a disability. What I have found the hardest about entering the workforce is knowing the accommodations I need, and feeling safe and secure enough in my work environment to ask for them. “You just had a heart attack” were not the words I expected to hear as a 14-year-old girl when I woke from my hospital bed… Being diagnosed with a congenital heart defect, heart disease, and elevated lipoprotein(
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Mashup Score: 3Home - 22 day(s) ago
While I have had many great opportunities, I have faced certain career struggles as a survivor and a person with a disability. What I have found the hardest about entering the workforce is knowing the accommodations I need, and feeling safe and secure enough in my work environment to ask for them. “You just had a heart attack” were not the words I expected to hear as a 14-year-old girl when I woke from my hospital bed… Being diagnosed with a congenital heart defect, heart disease, and elevated lipoprotein(
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Mashup Score: 15Blog Article: The 10th Anniversary of My Triple Diagnosis - 1 month(s) ago
“You just had a heart attack” were not the words I expected to hear as a 14-year-old girl when I woke from my hospital bed. Ten years ago, I attended my first winter formal as a freshman in high school with my sister and best friend. It was “the best night ever” — not only did I get to spend it with the people I loved most, it was also my first dance with a boy. I felt my heart thumping and racing on the way home from the dance and the feeling did not go away. Even after I settled down for bed. I
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“’You just had a heart attack,’ were not the words I expected to hear as a 14-year-old girl when I woke from my hospital bed.” Ceirra’s heart attack was caused by high Lp(a). More: https://t.co/wdMPh1AbzZ. The Lp(a) Discovery Project is supported by @NovartisUS. #LPAAwareness https://t.co/99OEqFJMx6
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Mashup Score: 18Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) - 3 month(s) ago
Congenital heart defects are abnormalities of the heart structure or function that are present at birth. They can include heart valve defects, atrial and ventricular septa defects, stenosis, heart muscle abnormalities and other defects that can prove dangerous or even deadly. Learn more about CHD at https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/congenital-heart-defects
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It's #CHDWeek. Having a child with a heart defect can be scary and confusing for families and caregivers. Find support from #CHD survivors and family members on the CHD forum of our free Support Network: https://t.co/SzzEQeNAw9 https://t.co/sc3QgX05Ig
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Mashup Score: 17Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) - 3 month(s) ago
Congenital heart defects are abnormalities of the heart structure or function that are present at birth. They can include heart valve defects, atrial and ventricular septa defects, stenosis, heart muscle abnormalities and other defects that can prove dangerous or even deadly. Learn more about CHD at https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/congenital-heart-defects
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It's #CHDWeek. Having a child with a heart defect can be scary and confusing for families and caregivers. Find support from #CHD survivors and family members on the CHD forum of our free Support Network: https://t.co/SzzEQeNAw9 https://t.co/sc3QgX05Ig
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Mashup Score: 19Blog Article: Fighting for Her Heart - 6 month(s) ago
By Michelle Watts, Founder of Avery’s Fight FH Awareness Day on Sept. 24 has become a very important day to our family. Almost nine years ago our daughter, Avery, was diagnosed with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), totally by “luck” at age six. I asked our pediatrician to test our children’s lipid levels at a routine checkup. Avery’s total cholesterol test came back over 800! We now know that my husband and I, along with our oldest son, all have the very common heterozygous form of
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Avery was 6 when doctors diagnosed her with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Since then, she's had 3 open-heart surgeries & weekly procedures to clean her blood of LDL "bad" cholesterol. Read more on the Support Network blog: https://t.co/IU67v9NCuE @AverysFight https://t.co/o2RrEdyV9B
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Mashup Score: 7Blog Article: So Much Life Left to Live - 6 month(s) ago
I’m John Durham, and I have homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), although for most of my life it was simply known as “high cholesterol.” I’m 69. When I was 16, my father, an orthopedic surgeon, knew something was wrong because of the huge xanthomatous lesions (which contain cholesterol and fats) on my Achilles tendons. Also, my maternal grandparents both died of complications from atherosclerosis. My total cholesterol was dangerously high at almost 600 mg/dl, and diet modifications never got
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Since John Durham was 16, he’s been fighting what was once just called high cholesterol. It turned out to be a rare & very dangerous genetic disorder called homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). He shared his story on the Support Network blog: https://t.co/gaDOqPz9Hm https://t.co/tOJ3eZyTEj
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Mashup Score: 1Blog Article: I survived and thrived after a yearlong bout with recurrent pericarditis - 9 month(s) ago
I was a fit, active mother of three when I had a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 36 — less than a week after I gave birth to my daughter. It couldn’t have been scripted more perfectly if it were a scene in a Hollywood movie. I broke out in a sweat and felt numbness and tingling in my left arm. The pain was intense, like there was an elephant sitting on my chest. I felt nauseous and I vomited. Despite having the classic symptoms — and an irregular EKG — it was a week before doctors took me seriously.
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Rhonda survived and thrived after a heart attack and a yearlong bout of recurrent pericarditis, a painful inflammation of the sac that surrounds the heart. She shares how she advocated for herself and now advocates for others on the Support Network blog: https://t.co/xxFV1aHp7d https://t.co/2cMfuAOz8T
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Mashup Score: 4Maternal Health - 9 month(s) ago
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Build your mom squad through the free American Heart Association’s Support Network Maternal Health Forum. Ask questions, get support and share your journey with others who’ve been there. You don't have to do this alone. https://t.co/AOPLOaFVSQ https://t.co/krPOBtVuIi
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Mashup Score: 3AHA Elaboration Experience - 2 year(s) ago
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“After my dad died of heart failure as a result of hATTR amyloidosis in 2016, his doctor asked me to be tested for a genetic variant that causes the disease. I had a variant, which is more common in the Black community.” Read Giselle’s story: https://t.co/psPH7wOdZE https://t.co/LrznAMO8BV
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