Heart Failure Exercise Guidelines
... Why should I exercise? Regular exercise has many benefits. Exercise, especially aerobic exercise, can: Strengthen your heart and cardiovascular system Reduce your heart disease risk factors, such as h...

General Guidelines for Coping with Heart Failure
... By making lifestyle and activity changes, you can take an active role in treating your heart failure and helping improve your health. Now that I feel better, when can I return to my regular activities...

Potassium Guidelines for Patients With Heart Failure
... This guide provides basic information to help you start regulating your potassium level until your appointment with a registered dietitian, the nutrition expert. These are general guidelines which may...

Listen to the Sound of Your Heart (Pump)
... Whether it’s an industrial pump, a nuclear submarine pump or a pump that helps a weakened or diseased heart, all these man-made devices have one thing in common: their components make the same types o...

Understanding Heart Failure
... Heart failure means that the heart''s pumping power is weaker than normal. Heart failure does not mean that your heart has stopped working.With heart failure, blood moves through the heart and body at...

Heart Failure Exercise Precautions
... If changes have been made in your medications, call your doctor before continuing your regular exercise program. New medications can greatly affect your response to activity. If you are too tired and...

Heart Heal Thyself: Researching Heart Failure Prevention
... For years medical doctors and scientists have thought that heart failure, which afflicts millions of Americans, was irreversible. But this long-held belief is not true. "We looked at some of the ...

Heart Failure Resources
... Heart Failure Society of America, Inc. Cheryl Yano, Executive Director Court International - Suite 240 S 2550 University Avenue West Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114 (651) 642-1633 E-mail: info@hfsa.org ww...

Heart Failure Symptoms: When to Call the Doctor
... The key to managing heart failure is to take your medications, make diet changes, live a healthy lifestyle, and keep your doctor''s appointments. Your doctor will tell you how often to visit. If you a...

Monitoring Your Health When You Have Heart Failure
... This handout provides a summary of ways you can actively treat your heart failure, including: Weighing yourself at the same time each day and recording your weight Monitoring your fluid intake Managin...

Palliative Care
... What is palliative care? Palliative care is a special type of medical care that focuses on treatment of the symptoms people may have when they are living with a chronic (long-standing) illness, such a...

Your Pulse and Your Target Heart Rate
... What is your pulse? Your pulse is your heart rate, or the number of times your heart beats in one minute. Pulse rates vary from person to person. Your pulse is lower when you are at rest and increases...

Pumping More to Beat Heart Failure
... A new implantable heart pump may be able to help a greater percentage of the more than five million people who suffer from chronic congestive heart failure (CHF) than current traditional pumps. Leonar...

U.S.News & World Report Ranks Cleveland Clinic Heart Center Number One in America for Tenth Year in a Row
... The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center celebrates a decade of being ranked as the nation’s No. 1 cardiac care center with the release in July of the U.S.News & World Report 2004 "America’s Best Ho...

Low-Sodium Guidelines for Heart Failure
... This guide provides basic information to help you start or continue following your heart failure diet. Planning what you eat and balancing your meals are important ways to manage your health. Eating h...

Overview
... A diagnosis of heart failure sounds scary, as if your heart could stop at any moment. But the underlying heart conditions that commonly cause heart failure, such as coronary artery disease or high blo...

NHLBI Study Finds Implanted Defibrillator Reduces Heart Failure Deaths
... An implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) significantly reduces deaths in heart failure patients, according to a new study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), one of t...

Specialized Care from Hospital to Home Improves the Health of Elderly with Heart Failure, Cuts Costs to the Health Care System
... A new study shows that when elderly heart-failure patients receive specialized nursing care throughout their hospital stay and at home following hospital discharge, the patients have a better quality ...

Heart Failure
... Heart failure is a condition where the heart cannot pump enough blood throughout the body. Heart failure does not mean that your heart has stopped or is about to stop working. It means that your heart...