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Intermountain Health to use grant to study patients with heart problem
When Bill Beeston was a child, he was diagnosed with a heart murmur. At the time of his diagnosis, he didn’t have any adverse symptoms. When he got older, however, he started to notice he would get short winded while mowing the lawn or being in higher elevations. That’s when doctors discovered he had a condition called mitral valve prolapse with regurgitation. “It means blood was flowing back into my heart instead of being pushed out,” the Provo resident said during a press conference on Monday. “That’s a problem, so they started to monitor me and over the years it just got ...
