DRUGS

Drugs and Cardiovascular Disease

Drugs and Cardiovascular Disease

Drugs and Congestive Heart Failure

Congestive heart failure is a chronic disease whose main characteristic is to decrease the heart's ability to pump blood. It occurs when the heart muscle disease weakens or when the valve that regulates blood flow to the rest of the body does not close well. As there slowing the flow to the rest of the body, blood deprived of oxygen discharges, accumulating in the lungs and infiltrating tissues. However, it is usually necessary to seek the underlying cause in heart disease that includes hypertension, diabetes or an abnormal heart rhythm. In ...