DeFilippis shares facts about adult heart health

Your heart is an amazing piece of machinery that pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood as it contracts and expands about 100,000 times per day.

Since the heart is such an important organ, if it begins to weaken, you may have significant problems with your overall health - not just your heart health.

Heart disease isn't one particular problem, but a group of diseases, according to Andrew P. DeFilippis, M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor of medicine with the University of Louisville Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.

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