{"id":171817,"date":"2023-09-11T22:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/congestive-heart-failure-prevention-treatment-and-research"},"modified":"2023-09-11T22:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:26:30","slug":"congestive-heart-failure-prevention-treatment-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/congestive-heart-failure-prevention-treatment-and-research","title":{"rendered":"Congestive Heart Failure: Prevention, Treatment and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/congestive-heart-failure-prevention-treatment-and-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congestive heart failure (also called heart failure) is a serious condition in which the heart doesn\u2019t pump blood as efficiently as it should. Despite its name, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/healthlibrary\/conditions\/adult\/cardiovascular_diseases\/heart_failure_85,p00206\/\">heart failure<\/a> doesn\u2019t mean that the heart has literally failed or is about to stop working. Rather, it means that the heart muscle has become less able to contract over time or has a mechanical problem that limits its ability to fill with blood. As a result, it can\u2019t keep up with the body\u2019s demand, and blood returns to the heart faster than it can be pumped out\u2014it becomes congested, or backed up. This pumping problem means that not enough oxygen-rich blood can get to the body\u2019s other organs.<\/p>\n<p>The body tries to compensate in different ways. The heart beats faster to take less time for refilling after it contracts\u2014but over the long run, less blood circulates, and the extra effort can cause heart palpitations. The heart also enlarges a bit to make room for the blood. The lungs fill with fluid, causing shortness of breath. The kidneys, when they don\u2019t receive enough blood, begin to retain water and sodium, which can lead to kidney failure. With or without treatment, heart failure is often and typically progressive, meaning it gradually gets worse.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5 million people in the United States have congestive heart failure. It\u2019s the most common diagnosis in hospitalized patients over age 65. One in nine deaths has heart failure as a contributing cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congestive heart failure (also called heart failure) is a serious condition in which the heart doesn\u2019t pump blood as efficiently as it should. Despite its name, heart failure doesn\u2019t mean that the heart has literally failed or is about to stop working. Rather, it means that the heart muscle has become less able to contract [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}