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Cover Story: Eva La Rue speaks from the heart

When Eva La Rue moved from daytime to primetime for her role on “CSI: Miami” in 2005, she was filled with anxiety and excitement.

But soon after, on top of juggling her career and then-4-year-old daughter, Kaya, the actress found herself in the midst of a family crisis: Her father had suffered a heart attack. “It was a crazy time,” recalls La Rue of summer 2006, “but luckily my father didn’t have a massive coronary.”

Since that health incident, however, La Rue has become acutely aware of the history of heart disease that plagues her family’s paternal side. “My cousin on my dad’s side had a major heart attack at age 40, which resulted in a quadruple bypass. His father had a major heart attack when he was in his 50s,” she says, beginning to tick off the litany of her family’s heart disease history. “And my grandmother, who’s 90, has been on heart medication for a very long time. They all have very high cholesterol and high blood pressure.”...

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