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. Michele Bolles:

   In the case of a stroke, the longer you wait, the more brain damage and brain tissue is lost, and for a person experiencing a heart attack, the same is true -- time equals heart muscle -- and in those two incidences, time is critical. Every minute counts, what we may see is more patients with heart failure. Patients being diagnosed with heart failure down the road because they have had untreated mild heart attacks and didn't seek timely treatment during the lockdown.

2. Kristen Smith:

   There's a lot more to assessing health than knowing one's body weight, an individual with a normal BMI may have fat stored in locations in their body that could put them at increased risk for chronic diseases and heart failure.

3. Michele Bolles:

   What we may see is more patients with heart failure. Patients being diagnosed with heart failure down the road because they have had untreated mild heart attacks and didn't seek timely treatment during the lockdown, and ultimately there are some cases where people will die at home because they didn't call 911 and didn't seek proper emergency care.

4. Emerson Perin:

   You can imagine, we keep everybody going and doing better with the medicine. And now we have a treatment that actually addresses the cause and quiets everything down. So, this line of investigation really has a great future and I can see that, with a confirmatory trial, we can bring this kind of treatment into the mainstream, we can treat heart failure differently.

5. Gregory Marcus:

   So this provides some compelling evidence that experimenting with (going) off coffee might be worthwhile in those individuals who experience bothersome palpitations related to PVCs, there’s also evidence that in some people, more PVCs can lead to a weakening of the heart or heart failure.