Heart Failure

Heart failure is a serious condition that requires medical care. When your heart can’t pump blood the way it should be or the heart can’t fill with enough blood, you need to get a medical treatment. Heart failure affects the right side of the heart only or both the left and right sides of the heart. This does not mean your heart has stopped or is about to stop working, but it needs a serious medical treatment.

High blood pressure, diabetes or coronary artery disease could damage the heart and lead to heart failure. In the United States, about 5 million people have heart failure, and it results in about 300,000 deaths each year. Heart failure can affects both children and adults.

To prevent heart failure, it is important to follow a heart healthy diet, not smoking, doing physical activity, and losing weight if you’re overweight or obese. Try to control your high blood pressure and diabetes with doctor also can help prevent heart failure.

If heart failure is diagnosed early and they follow their treatment plans, people can live longer and more active. There is no cure for heart failure, but the researchers offer hope for better ways to delay heart failure and its complications.