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The key to preventing heart failure is to reduce your risk factors. You can control or eliminate many of the risk factors for heart disease high blood pressure and coronary artery disease, for example by making lifestyle changes along with the help of any needed medications. Follow a heart healthy diet. A heart healthy diet [...]

These medications widen the blood vessels. With wider blood vessels, the heart does not have to work so hard to push the blood through the arteries. The most widely used are the ACE inhibitors, which work by inhibiting the production of a substance called angiotensin II, which normally causes blood vessels to tighten. Many different [...]

Heart failure is a chronic disease needing lifelong management. However, with treatment, signs and symptoms of heart failure can improve and the heart sometimes becomes stronger. Doctors sometimes can correct heart failure by treating the underlying cause. For example, repairing a heart valve or controlling a fast heart rhythm may reverse heart failure. But for [...]

Heart failure is diagnosed based on the medical and family histories, physical exam, blood test and other diagnostic procedures.No system of diagnostic criteria has been agreed as the gold standard for heart failure. Commonly used systems are the “Framingham criteria” (derived from the Framingham Heart Study), the “Boston criteria”, the “Duke criteria”, and (in the [...]

The symptoms of Heart Failure depend on which side of the heart is affected. The failure can be of two types, systolic and diastolic.The left part of the heart sends blood to the organs from the lungs and when it fails to perform, the result is clogging of the veins of the lungs. The most [...]

Conditions that damage or overwork the heart muscle can cause heart failure. Over time, the heart weakens. It isn’t able to fill with and/or pump blood as well as it should. As the heart weakens, certain proteins and other substances may be released into the blood. These substances have a toxic effect on the heart [...]

Heart failure (HF) is generally defined as inability of the heart to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the body’s needs. It has various diagnostic criteria, and the term heart failure is often incorrectly used to describe other cardiac-related illnesses, such as myocardial infarction (heart attack) or cardiac arrest. Common causes of heart failure include [...]