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Heart Failure — Symptoms, Causes and Diagnosis

With rising standards of living and ever increasing luxuries being embedded in our lives, problems too are rising though at a gradual pace. The problems so rising are now being known as the silent invaders which do not show their effects in initial stages but can even suck the lives out of the bodies drop by drop if not uprooted at the right time.  One of the top grossing problems popping up these days is the   heart failure . Now don’t get confused with heart failure to be stoppage in functioning of heart. It basically is a condition in which the heart cannot pump efficiently enough to meet the body’s need for blood. Contrary to its name, heart failure does not mean the heart has failed completely. Heart does not pump enough blood. Blood backs up in veins and body does not get enough blood, food, and oxygen. Symptoms As it has been told, such problems are silent invaders which do not show any signs at time of entering the body. But still, some symptoms could be identified t

Heart Failure Prevention and Treatment - Dr. Anurag Sharma

May it be the world’s biggest problem; we can always find a solution for any. May it be a social problem, a natural problem or a health problem, we always have an answer, a solution waiting to be found. In today’s time, there is nearly no disease which is not having a cure. We now have a way out from almost every problem. But now the question arises that Can a heart failure be prevented? There are certain causes of   heart failure   like obesity, hypertension, valvular diseases of heart, hyperthyroidism. Treating these risk factors at an early stage can prevent heart failure. Most important risk factor, diagnose and treatment of which is usually delayed in our country, is the coronary artery disease. Untreated Coronary artery disease can lead to heart failure in most of the patients. If any patient has angina (chest pain) at rest or impending heart attack, he/she must be given re-perfusion therapy at the earliest, to restore blood flow, either by thrombolysis or by primary an