How Your Heart Works
Your heart is an amazing organ. It beats about 100,000 times every day, to move blood around your body. As your heart beats, blood c...
Heart Failure
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Smoking Risk Factors
If you smoke, you probably know it damages your body in a lot of ways. For one thing, smoking lowers the amount of oxygen that goes...
Label Reading
An important part of smart grocery shopping is reading food labels, also known as the “Nutrition Facts.” Because the food you eat is...
Smart Grocery Shopping
It’s important to know how to shop for your groceries in a smart and heart-healthy way. The following tips are ways for you to shop...
Your Healthcare Team (MWHC)
Our goal is to take the best care of you, and to do that there is a whole team of people whose job is to help care for you. Your hea...
Diagnostic Tests
To understand more about your condition, your doctor may need to order some tests. The most common tests for heart failure are a che...
What is Heart Failure?
The term “heart failure” can be scary because it sounds like your heart has stopped working, but that’s not true. What heart failure...
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-Biventricular Pacemaker (CRT)
If you have heart failure and an irregular heart rhythm, your doctor may recommend cardiac resynchronization therapy, or CRT. CRT de...
Vasodilators
Vasodilators are medications that can be used to treat CHF because they help widen your blood vessels. Having wider blood vessels he...
Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator
A wearable cardioverter defibrillator, such as the ZOLL LifeVest, is a nonsurgical treatment option for people who are at risk for s...