Consultant and Interventional Cardiologist in Pune, Dr. Madhusudan Asawa explains Heart Failure. It's the inability of the heart to pump blood effectively. You can simply define it as a weakness in pumping function of the Heart. The heart may be unable to ejject enough volume of the blood. 

Symptoms:

  • Shortness of breath.
  • Swelling in thie legs.
  • Pain in the chest while walking.

1 % to 2 % population have the symptoms of heart failure. 

The patient suffering from following diseases need to be very careful :

  • Diabetes.
  • Long standing hypertension.
  • People having abnormally functioning heart valve.

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