Heart failure patients, and their doctors, have to actively coordinate their care if they hope to stay out of the hospital.
Atrial fibrillation could lead to heart failure, but paying attention to your risk factors can help.
With their own set of symptoms and disease outcomes, additional risk factors like pregnancy, and standard diagnostic equipment that tends to look for male symptoms only, women can be overlooked by doctors, and sometimes even dismissed, even though heart failure affects both sexes in equal measure.
For people with heart failure, medication is an important part of the treatment plan. But the medications themselves can quickly become confusing and overwhelming.
Heart failure can impact your whole body, not just your heart. Learn more about how to manage heart failure symptoms and what to expect from treatment to improve your health outcomes.
Research has found a connection between sitting down and the risk of heart failure. Check out these 10 tips to reduce your sitting time.
A normal heart rhythm should beat like a steady drum. Atrial fibrillation is like a chaotic drumbeat out of rhythm. That can bring on blood clots, heart failure and stroke.
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