A stiff heart
A type of heart failure
You received a diagnosis of heart failure a few months back. Since then, you've been exercising more, eating less salt and taking your medications. Recently, you heard news of a new medication for heart failure. Interested, you inquire about it at your next checkup, but your doctor says it's not effective for the kind of heart failure that you have. It turns out not all heart failure is the same.
In the past, heart failure was largely thought to be the result of a heart too weak to pump out the right amount of blood. But in a large and growing group of people, heart failure develops even when the pumping ability of the heart muscle remains relatively intact.
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