You can follow a treatment plan and take medications as a doctor prescribes to manage congestive heart failure. Eat a heart-healthy diet and stay physically active to slow heart failure progression.

Congestive heart failure (CHF) occurs when the heart has trouble pumping blood the way it should, often due to damage, inflammation, or weakness in the heart muscle. There is no known cure for CHF—and ...

A widely used heart failure medication called sacubitril/valsartan was associated with a lower risk of heart damage compared to placebo among high-risk cancer patients being treated with anthracycline ...

There were 928 patients with CHF (i.e., International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification codes 428, 402.01, 402.11,402.91, and 404) admitted to our institution between ...

A commonly prescribed medication for heart failure was linked to a lower risk of heart damage, or cardiotoxicity, among high-risk cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment using anthracyclines ...

Doctors who received customized electronic health record (EHR) alerts for specific patients were 2.5 times as likely to prescribe mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs), a guideline-recommended ...

Patients who have been treated for heart failure and experience an improvement of their pump function, are still at higher risk of heart-related death or hospitalization if they stop taking heart ...

People who live in neighborhoods with higher levels of poverty and unemployment are less likely to fill their heart-failure drug prescriptions than those living in wealthier areas, a new study shows.

"While BP is generally linked to negative outcomes, it might be more advantageous for patients to have slightly lower BP as a result of higher HF treatment dosages, than to have higher BP with less HF ...