Heart Failure Disease Prevention in Corbin, KY

Heart failure is a very complex clinical syndrome, due to either, deficiency, the filling of the heart or stiffening of the heart, not able to fill adequately, or due to weakness of the heart muscle resulting in decreased pumping of the heart.

Heart failure can certainly be prevented because it is caused most commonly by certain conditions.

They can make lifestyle changes to control their blood pressure, control their diabetes if they're diabetic, do regular exercise, control all the risk factors for coronary heart disease, like smoking and high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol. And once they get into heart failure, of course, they have to be under the care of a provider, where they are treated according to the guideline directed medical therapy. Patients who present with acute heart failure, they're treated in the hospital setting with aggressive IV diuretic therapy. And then once they are stabilized, they go into heart failure clinic where they are closely followed to make sure patient continues to remain stable and they are following all the recommendations appropriately.

There's a misconception about heart failure that it's a heart attack and it's a death sentence. It's not a terminal condition. It's a condition that can be treated very well and treated appropriately with all the advances that we have made in research on heart failure. We got excellent drugs that will make the patient to live a long, high quality life.