Burning issues in the prevention of heart failure

Chronic heart failure is common, debilitating, and often the culmination of pervasive cardiovascular insults that systematically undermine the heart’s circulatory capacity and invoke counterproductive neuro-hormonal compensatory changes. Prevention of chronic heart failure therefore requires minimis...

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Main Authors: J. A. Ker, K. Outhoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2019-09-01
Series:South African Family Practice
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Online Access:https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/4956
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description Chronic heart failure is common, debilitating, and often the culmination of pervasive cardiovascular insults that systematically undermine the heart’s circulatory capacity and invoke counterproductive neuro-hormonal compensatory changes. Prevention of chronic heart failure therefore requires minimising the impact of traditional cardiovascular risk factors with incisive treatment of hypertension and type II Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and prompt lifestyle interventions for smoking, lack of exercise, obesity and hypercholesterolemia. This review is narrative, with selected emphasis on major studies, rather than structured on a specific clinical question, and should be read as such.
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chronic heart failure
prevention
cardio-protection
hypertension
type 2 diabetes mellitus
title Burning issues in the prevention of heart failure
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title_short Burning issues in the prevention of heart failure
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topic chronic heart failure
prevention
cardio-protection
hypertension
type 2 diabetes mellitus
url https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/4956
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