Specifically, the heart muscle in dogs with DCM becomes. weak and incapable of pumping blood forward as strongly as it should. In addition, the. electrical conduction system in the heart is often affected, sometimes resulting in life-. threatening or fatal arrhythmias (abnormalities in cardiac rhythm).
The nine states the U.S. Census Bureau designates as the Northeast region are Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Though the region is traditionally defined in a number of ways, the Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.