Four sisters in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area have familial dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that killed their father in 2003, the Washington Post reports.
Approximately 375,000 people in the U.S. have familial dilated cardiomyopathy, which the Post notes is more common in African Americans than whites and is most often diagnosed between ages 20 and 60.
Read below for more on the sisters dealing with the disease:
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.