 The registry will enable researchers to determine best medical practices for predicting, preventing, and treating heart disease. The registry will: 1 develop standard methods to collect data and specimens which will be used for research to characterize patients diagnosed with heart disease as well as healthy controls and to assess differences in demographics and patient outcomes in both populations; 2 collect, process, and store patients clinical data and tissueblood samples; 3 analyze data collected; 4 use these resources to identify genes, genetic polymorphisms, genetic mutations, clinical methods and procedures, andor biomarkers that predict, prevent, or treat heart disease andor are associated correlate with lifestyle or disease outcomes; 5 publish and disseminate results. 