Living with congestive heart failure.
Living with heart failure.
Congestive heart failure is when the heart is unable to pump effectively to meet the body s needs.
This article addresses many lifestyle questions you may have and offers.
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Heart failure sometimes known as congestive heart failure occurs when your heart muscle doesn t pump blood as well as it should.
First of all heart failure is an unfortunate and inaccurate term says lynne warner stevenson md the director of the cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
There are many lifestyle changes that a person with chf can make that have been shown to help slow the progression of the condition.
Queen latifah s mother rita owens has died after living with heart failure for 14 years the actress and singer said yesterday.