Does Diabetes Cause Congestive Heart Failure
Health Encyclopedia: Heart Failure
CHF; Congestive heart failure
Prevention
Follow your health care provider's recommendations for treatment of conditions that may cause congestive heart failure. These recommendations may include:
- Treat your high blood pressure with diet, exercise, and medication if necessary.
- Treat your high cholesterol with diet, exercise, and medication if necessary.
- DO NOT smoke
- Avoid alcohol use
- Take an ACE inhibitor if you have ...
Expert & Community Posts
Is the FDA a watchdog or a dog?
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert...maker of Actos, to strengthen existing warnings about congestive heart failure (CHF). Both drugs... Read more »
J is for Januvia
By David Mendosa , Health Expert...many doctors will now look around for alternative diabetes drugs to prescribe as the fear of... Read more »
Heart failure, is it All the Same?
By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert...This excess fluid or congestion explains the term congestive heart failure, which you've... Read more »
High Blood Pressure Drugs: Top 3 Effective Treatments
By Alvin Hopkinson , Health Expert...Prescribed for patients with neuphrotic syndrome, congestive heart failure and swelling.... Read more »
Metformin and the risk of lactic acidosis
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert...an adequate renal and liver function (also without congestive heart failure or hypersensitivity... Read more »
Health Guide
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...chronic conditions in most older people, as long as it’s done when the condition is under control.Congestive heart failure (CHF) is an example of a serious chronic condition common in older... Read more »Heart failure
Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a life-threatening condition in which the heart can no longer pump enough blood to the rest of the body. Alternative... Read more »Congestive Heart Failure Lifestyle Changes
...Some patients may need to reduce their water intake as well. People with high cholesterol levels or diabetes require additional dietary precautions.[For more information, see In-Depth Report #43:... Read more »Erectile Dysfunction Medications: Impotence Medications
...should not be used by men who take nitrate drugs for chest pain or heart problems.Mild to moderate congestive heart failure. (A randomized study in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that men... Read more »Medications for Congestive Heart Failure
...in patients with existing heart failure.ACE inhibitors are particularly important for patients with diabetes. A large study reported that diabetic patients who took these drugs had fewer heart... Read more »Images
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