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===Problem===
According to the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation, there are approximately 70 000 heart attacks in Canada each year, which is roughly one heart attack every 7 minutes.<ref name= "hsf">{{cite web|title=Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation Statistics|url=http://www.heartandstroke.com/site/c.ikIQLcMWJtE/b.3483991/k.34A8/Statistics.htm|publisher=Heart and Stroke Foundation|accessdate=20 November 2012}}</ref> Of those 70,000, over 16,000 Canadians die due to their heart attack.<ref name="hsf" /> There are emergency treatments that hospitals can administer, such as [[angioplasty]] or [[surgery]], but after that patients will likely be on medication for the rest of their lives and will be more susceptible to future heart attacks depending on the damage done to their heart.<ref name="hsf" /> Heart attack survivors may also develop heart failure, coronary artery disease or congenital heart disease, as well as have life threatening abnormal heart rhythms.<ref name="hsf" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Congential Heart Disease|url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002103/|publisher=PubMed Health|accessdate=20 November 2012}}</ref> Medical treatments such as pacemakers and heart transplantations are current methods to treat cardiovascular conditions, however new treatments are being discovered and non-invasive approaches are being developed.<ref name="hsf" />
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