heart failure
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- Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of hospitalization among the elderly, and 1 in 5 adults aged 40 years will develop HF in their lifetime.
- Kawasaki disease (KD), a systemic vasculitis, is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in industrialised countries.
- Congestive heart failure (CHF) is characterized by increased salt and water retention by the kidneys in response to decreased renal blood flow.
- Kidney disease is a frequent complication of congestive heart failure (CHF) and may contribute to the progression of ventricular dysfunction.
- Heart failure (HF) is the most common cause of cardiovascular hospitalization, especially among the elderly.
- Over the last decade, myocarditis has been increasingly recognized as common cause of sudden cardiac death in young adults and heart failure overall.
- Heart failure (HF) is a chronic, progressive disorder in which the heart fails to provide adequate blood supply to the body due to insufficient rate or volume.
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) is a common genetic disease, the most frequent cause of sudden cardiac death in the young, and also an important cause of heart failure isability at any age.
- Although sleep disordered breathing is thought to be common in patients with systolic heart failure, prior studies are difficult to interpret due to a variety of factors including small sample sizes, referral bias to sleep laboratories among participants, lack of modern medical therapy for congestive heart failure, and the failure to use modern techniques to assess breathing such as nasal pressure.