How long can someone with cardiovascular disease live?

Depends on a lot of health factors and could be from 1 yr to 50 yrs..

Depends upon what your problem is. I got congestive heart failure in 1997, but I am still going. You will probably have to make some changes to your life style (foods, exercise, etc. ) Talk to your doctor !

My auntie was almost 106 when she died...the doctors had been saying for forty years that with her heart condition she could not last much longer, and the family should prepare to lose her...

Jann and Korvo One are correct, it is difficult to predict.

Depends on the case,the patient and the recovery process.

Sorry to say that life is a crap shoot. You literally got athletes dying from things they should have no reason of die from. Still if you live the best that you can nutritionally, you might find yourself living a long healthy life. Then again, things could go south for you regardless.

Depends on a number of individualistic factors .. There are degrees of disease, there are also 'stages' of the disease .. Each individual has many health and lifestyle related factors that help or hinder their progression of  a disease. 

My brother's brother-in-law, was told unless he quit smoking and got a heart transplant he would die within two years. He refused to quit smoking, and never got the transplant. At the time I thought that was a completely selfish decision as he had a young daughter. It has been over 20 years and he is still alive and kicking. His daughter is now married and has a daughter of her own that loves her Pap-pap very much. Who knows if he had the surgery he may very well have rejected the heart and never made it. 

I have also known people who were in their 30s or 40s who have died from heart failure. Some thin and look perfectly healthy and others that had been told if they didn't change the way they were living and lose weight they were not going to live to me a senior citizen. It really is the luck of the draw.

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