Heart failure affects 6.5 million Americans.
It is a slow-progressing disease, in which the heart works less and less effectively.
Many people know it as congestive heart failure because a major symptom is a fluid buildup, which can overwhelm the lungs, impeding breathing and possibly causing death.
Patients endure repeat hospitalizations to adjust medications when their condition dips, or “decompensates,” making heart failure a major driver of hospital admissions and healthcare costs.
This Health & Medicine Lab video talks about a new gamechanger in heart failure treatment.
If you care about heart health, please read studies about vitamin K that may help cut heart disease risk by a third, and a year of committed exercise in middle age reversed worrisome heart failure.
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