This finding was largely driven by congestive heart failure. The practicing clinician should not abandon doxazosin completely because of the ALLHAT findings, although these findings are ...

Therefore, using new definitions for mode of death due to heart failure, we performed a retrospective chart review of records from a university-based heart failure disease management program to ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Congestive heart failure (CHF) occurs ...

The heart is a muscle like no other, beating 60 to 100 times per minute on average, around the clock. But when it grows weak, it can lead to serious problems: from debilitating shortness of breath and ...

Background New-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) increases ...

Oct. 4, 2024 — Researchers identified a lipid that is involved in regulating cardiac ion channels, providing insights into possible mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias in heart failure and a ...

A new scientific statement issued today by the Heart Failure Society of America highlights a critical connection between heart failure (HF) and cancer, with shared mechanisms contributing to the ...

Among the benefits of semaglutide, the GLP-1 receptor agonist may protect against heart failure events in patients with type 2 diabetes and CKD.

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That test revealed that his ejection fraction, a measure of how effectively your blood pumps, was “really low” and the then-41-year-old was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2019.