Burning issues in the prevention of heart failure

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Authors

Ker, James A.
Outhoff, Kim

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MedPharm Publications

Abstract

Chronic heart failure is common, debilitating, and often the culmination of pervasive cardiovascular insults that systematically undermine the heart’s circulatory capacity and invoke counterproductive neuro-hormonal compensatory changes. Prevention of chronic heart failure therefore requires minimising the impact of traditional cardiovascular risk factors with incisive treatment of hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and prompt lifestyle interventions for smoking, lack of exercise, obesity and hypercholesterolemia. This review is narrative, with selected emphasis on major studies, rather than structured on a specific clinical question, and should be read as such.

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Republished with permission: South African Family Practice 2019;61(4):11-12.

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Chronic heart failure, Prevention, Cardio-protection, Hypertension, Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)

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Kera, J. A. and Outhoff, K. 2020, 'Burning Issues in the Prevention of Heart Failure', Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes in South Africa, vol. 25, no.2, pp. 46–48.