Knowing what causes heart disease and how you can prevent it can help you live a healthier, longer life.
Answer this one: Why is lack of regular exercise a major risk factor for heart disease?
If you have congestive heart failure, knowing your body can help you manage your condition.
Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the needs of the body's other organs.
Cardiomyopathy is any disease of the heart muscle in which the heart loses its ability to pump blood effectively.
Left-sided heart failure refers to problems with the heart's left ventricle, or lower chamber. In one type of left ventricular (LV) heart failure, the ventricle can't contract normally, meaning it doesn't have the force to pump blood into circulation, the American Heart Association says. In another type of LV heart failure, the ventricle can't relax normally, so the chamber can't fill with blood between heartbeats.