Causes of Heart Failure & Prevention Tips

Heart Failure is generally defined as the inability of the heart to supply adequate blood flow to meet the needs of the body. It has a variety of diagnostic criteria, and the term heart failure is often incorrectly used to describe the heart-related diseases, such as myocardial infarction (heart attack) or heart attack.

Causes of Heart Failure:

Heart failure is most often caused by:

Coronary artery disease (myocardial infarction or heart attack):
Berkurangan coronary artery disease causes blood flow to the heart muscle. If the arteries become clogged, the heart becomes starved for oxygen and nutrients (ischemia). In the short term, damage to heart muscle (heart attack) occurs. Damaged areas can not pump normally, which causes heart failure.

Other causes include :
1. Cardiomyopathy: damage to the heart muscle due to infections, alcohol or substance abuse, pregnancy or without an obvious cause.
2. The conditions that cause the heart to work too hard: high blood pressure (hypertension), heart valve disease, thyroid disease, kidney disease, diabetes mellitus or heart defects.

Including myocardial infarction (heart attack) and other forms of ischemic heart disease, hypertension, valvular heart disease, and cardiomyopathy. Heart failure can cause a number of symptoms including shortness of breath (typically worse when lying flat, called orthopnea), coughing, chronic venous congestion, swollen ankles, and exercise intolerance. Heart failure is often undiagnosed due to lack of universally agreed definition and challenges in the definitive diagnosis. Treatment usually consists of lifestyle measures (such as quitting smoking, light exercises including breathing protocols, reducing salt intake and other dietary changes) and drugs, and sometimes even the equipment or operation.

Heart Failure Prevention Tips :

The key to preventing heart failure is to reduce your risk factors. You can control or eliminate many risk factors for heart disease - high blood pressure and coronary artery disease, for example - by making lifestyle changes along with the help of any drug that is required.

Lifestyle changes you can make to help prevent heart failure include :

1. No smoking
2. Controlling certain conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes
3. Staying physically active
4. Eat a healthy diet
5. Maintain a healthy weight
6. Reduce and manage stress
7. multiply drinking water