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CardiovascularSevere
Heart Failure
Cardiology · Cardiovascular
Severe
Severity
Common — affects millions of people in India, with rising prevalence linked to increasing rates of hypertension and coronary artery disease
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Cardiology
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Most commonly caused by coronary artery disease and prior heart attacks that weaken the heart muscle
- 2alongside long-standing hypertension that forces the heart to work harder over time. Other causes include valvular heart disease
- 3cardiomyopathy
- 4arrhythmias
- 5and congenital heart defects. Diabetes
- 6obesity
- 7excessive alcohol use
- 8and certain chemotherapy drugs can also contribute to the development or worsening of heart failure.
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