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Many things like smoking, lack of exercise and bad diet increase the risk of getting Heart disease. Your genetics are just another thing that could increase the risk of you getting heart disease.

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Yes, you can inherit heart disease, if you or a loved one have, maby it would be helpful if you checked out this site, http://www.vanderbilthealth.com/heart/14138.

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Yes - heart problems tend to run in families and can be carried down from generation to generation.

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it can be... family history is definitely taken into account but only marginally.

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yes,it can be.e.g :hypertention,thrombosis,atherosclerosis,myocardial infarction and some other Heart diseases.they appear in offsprings of the effected individual in the old age

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