Synonyms for heart failure
heart fail·ure

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1. heart failurenoun

   Synonyms:
   congestive cardiac failure, congestive heart failure

2. heart failurenoun

   The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.

   Synonyms:
   congestive heart failure, congestive cardiac failure

3. heart failurenoun

   The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.

   Synonyms:
   congestive heart failure, congestive cardiac failure

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1. heart failure, coronary failurenoun

   inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions

   Synonyms:
   coronary failure

Matched Categories

1. • Failure
   • Heart Disease

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1. Robert Cowan:

   I think the immediate cause of death was heart failure, but I am unable to say what factor caused heart failure.

2. Emerson Perin:

   We can treat heart failure differently.

3. Scott Solomon:

   This could be related to the reasons why they had stopped drinking in the first place, for instance because they had already developed health problems that might have made them more likely to go on to develop heart failure.

4. Chief Executive Joe Jimenez:

   The average hospital stay for a heart failure patient in the United States is $11,000, so we are not receiving pushback on the price because I think this is seen as good value.

5. Del Gobbo:

   A key finding is that physical activity among older adults does not have to be strenuous to reduce heart failure risk, we saw benefits for adults who walked at moderate or brisk pace (more than 2 or 3 miles per hour) and burned calories through leisure activity, like house or yard work, walking, engaging in outdoor activities, or other forms of physical activity, equivalent to about 30 minutes per day of moderate-intensity activity.