Heart failure can occur at any age, but the elderly are at higher risk. The most common causes are coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and smoking. With rapidly changing ...

You've probably heard or read about congestive heart failure. Maybe you've even been told you have it, or know someone who has. In the future, however, you may not encounter the "congestive" part of ...

Heart failure is a chronic and serious condition, where the heart muscle cannot pump blood properly. This causes fluid ...

Heart failure has increasingly been recognized as a complex, metabolism-driven syndrome that extends far beyond traditional models of hemodynamic ...

In recognition of American Heart Month this February, MyMichigan will dedicate its Monday column to a series of educational articles about heart health. This week features heart failure. The Centers ...

A patient fact sheet outlining the differences between heart failure and cardiomyopathy, including subtypes of each condition and diagnostic procedures for both. Cardiomyopathy is a group of heart ...

Behind India’s rising heart failure burden lies a quieter crisis — expensive long-term care, income loss and limited ...

Heart failure is a term that virtually everyone has heard of, but many people don’t truly understand what heart failure really means for patients and their families. More than 6 million Americans ...

A person with advanced heart failure can look stable at a routine clinic visit. Their vitals may not alarm anyone.

A Vanderbilt University team found that excessive sodium intake was a direct, independent trigger for new-onset heart failure ...

Excess abdominal fat — not overall body weight — may drive heart failure risk, with systemic inflammation being partially to ...