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Does a normal EKG eliminate or reduce the chances of having diastolic heart failure?
submitted by Angela from Maryland on 6/5/2014
Answer:
by Texas Heart Institute cardiologist, Patrick J. Cook, MD
Reduces, but by no means eliminates, the possibility of diastolic dysfunction.
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