Can heart disease be cured?

Can heart disease be cured?

There are some forms of heart disease that can be essentially cured. Some heart rhythm problems, for example, after a procedure, may never come back again and you may never have any effects from them for the rest of your life. Some operations that can be done, particularly with children with congenital heart defects, will leave them without really any residual over the course of their lives. On the other hand, the great majority of heart disease, particularly coronary artery disease, arthrosclerosis effecting the heart and valvular heart disease, will have some effect on you for a long period of time and perhaps forever. The fact that we can't cure it - that is, we can't make it absolutely go away - doesn't mean that you can't live a perfectly happy and content life with heart disease and that you can't control all the symptoms that you might have from it. Although the heart disease may not be cured, you can in many cases be free of symptoms, doing everything you want to do, and able to go on with your life as if it had been cured. It's important to realize that continuing to engage in prevention of heart disease is critical to making that happen.