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Know the basics on symptoms, diagnosis and treatment to help as you battle the disease.

For an aging population such as that found in America, chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease take a massive toll. While these diseases might not garner the headlines awarded to acute killers like the latest flu outbreak or an exotic tropical disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that about 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year.

When heart attack symptoms start gradually and don't follow exertion, patients are much slower to get to an emergency room and risk missing a critical window for preserving heart function, researchers say.