Posts Tagged ‘Heart Disease’

When your heart can’t pump enough blood throughout your body you can suffer from congestive heart failure.

To avoid the debilitating effects of congestive heart failure is to recognize the warning signs which can include swelling of the legs and ankles called edema, painful fluid buildup and retention in the lungs causing shortness of breath as well as high blood pressure.

As far back as 2002 in the United States there were an estimated 5 million congestive heart failure patients, not to mention that  Read the rest of this entry »