Depression and anxiety put further stress on your heart, increasing your blood pressure. Here's how to keep them from worsening your condition.
Heart failure is a frightening term, but you can manage it. Learn what you need to know and meet a military veteran who’s turned her dire prognosis around.
What does it mean to have a weak ticker, and how does it affect the whole body?
When your heart can’t pump blood efficiently, it affects every part of your body in ways you may not expect. Know the signs of worsening heart failure.
Compliance is tricky, especially when you have multiple meds to take multiple times a day. What can help you stay on track with your heart health?
Lifestyle choices play a key part in living well with heart failure. See what changes you can make to take charge of your health.
When your heart can’t pump blood like it should, the rest of your body struggles to keep up. What parts are affected?
Living with heart failure can be a challenge, but tracking things like weight and blood pressure can help you catch warning signs before it’s serious.
A diagnosis of chronic heart failure means both big and small adjustments in your lifestyle. Learn how one man has adapted and stays active with CHF.
"With chronic heart failure, it's crucial to restrict foods high in sodium" says dietitian Johane Filemon. Learn which foods help your ticker, too.
Despite bias within the health care system, it’s in your power to get the right heart failure treatment plan to live as long – and as well – as possible.
Too much or too little of something like salt can affect your heart. Here are the vitamins and minerals to keep an eye on.
If you have cardiac issues, ejection fraction is an important percentage to know. Learn what it means and what it tells you about the health of your heart.
Yes, you can – and should -- exercise with chronic heart failure. A doctor explains how to do it safely and start feeling better.
Your heart and your mental health are connected. Here are strategies for treating feelings of depression and anxiety that can go along with heart failure.
Follow these tips to lessen anxiety, feel more focused, and even have some fun while you boost your health and live better with chronic heart failure.
You and your care team have more options than ever for treating heart failure. Learn how the breakthroughs in this field of medicine can help you.
