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How Heart Failure Work

Heart failure is the inability of the heart to pump enough blood to meet the needs of the body’s organs. The function of the heart is to pump blood to keep blood circulating. The left side of the heart takes oxygen-rich blood and pushes it out to the body. The right side of the heart takes in oxygen-poor blood from the body and pushes it to the lungs where it gets filled with oxygen. If either side of the heart fails to work as it should, you can develop heart failure. ⠀ ⠀ Causes Any condition that weakens the heart muscle can cause heart failure. Inadequate supply of blood to the heart muscle because of atherosclerosis is one common cause. So it is a heart attack because it kills part of the heart muscle. Untreated high blood pressure can force the heart to work too hard and weaken it. Viral infections can weaken the heart muscle. So can certain diseases that lead to toxic substances being deposited in the heart. Leaky or blocked heart valves can also lead to heart failure. Too m...

What Causes Heart Palpitations? | Heart Disease

So what causes heart palpitations? Well, first, let’s start talking about what palpitations are, I think for most of us, palpitations can be described as any unusual awareness of our heartbeat. It can be irregular, skipping, fluttering or fast heart sensation, and it’s pretty common. The first thing to say is that more often than not, palpitations are caused by a pretty benign or harmless condition. Oftentimes. It can be caused by something simple, such as a few extra heartbeats in the heart which we all get throughout the day other times it can be caused by an abnormal heart rhythm, which can either be a fast heart rhythm or a slow heart rhythm. The best way to get to the bottom of palpitations would be to see your  palpitation expert . They can do a basic EKG and sometimes they’ll order, more long-term monitoring, which would monitor your heartbeat or heart rhythm throughout the day in general, when we talk about palpitations, it’s a problem of the heart’s rhythm, the rhy...