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

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1. • Failure
   • Heart Disease

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1. David Kass:

   There's no question, in controlled trials with people who are obese and have heart failure, that if they go through a weight reduction or an exercise program or a combination, and we look at this marker of how they are doing, the answers to that are yes, there is evidence that weight loss is a good thing.

2. Miguel Martinez-Gonzalez:

   Sweetened beverages lead to weight gain and obesity and this leads to diabetes and heart failure, the take home message is to drink water instead of sweetened beverages.

3. Robert Cowan:

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

4. Vasant Shinde:

   Our guess is that probably they may have died of heart failure.

5. Brett Victor:

   Current therapies for heart failure including lifestyle modifications, a growing list of excellent medications, and device therapies will continue to be the standard of care for treatment in the near-term, i suspect that this trial will continue to move the field forward in studying cardiac cell therapy as we continue to look for ways to not just treat, but actually find a cure for this disease.