CVDs do affect everyone, even some of the famous
celebrities. Therefore, we must aware of these killing diseases.
Elizabeth
Taylor
She was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004. She died of the condition, which
limits the heart’s ability to pump around the body, in 2011. While five million
Americans are living this disease, about 20% die within a year of diagnosis and
50% die within 5 years, according to TIME’s
Healthland.
Robin
Williams
He was forced to postpone his stand-up tour after
experiencing shortness of breath. Physicians found that he needed an aortic valve replacement, a procedure that was performed successfully at the Cleveland
Clinic in Ohio in March 2009. 
Miley
Cyrus
In her 2009 autobiography “Miles To Go”, she
disclosed that she has tachycardia,
a heart condition that causes her heart to beat faster than normal.
“The type of tachycardia I have isn’t dangerous. It
won’t hurt, but it does bother me. There is never a time onstage when I’m not
thinking about my heart,” she wrote.
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