Although it's good news that more people are surviving heart attacks, the resulting damage to the heart muscle puts them at higher risk for heart failure.
Heart arrhythmias , heart valve disease and viral infections that attack the heart can also cause heart failure.
Those symptoms are meant to be replicated with a new heart failure “suit,” developed by the Meyer-Hentschel Institute in Germany, along with pharmaceutical companies Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly. “Easy things like you take for granted. Walking up the stairs. Tying your shoes. You know, I couldn't even imagine trying to do laundry like that,” she said.
There is no cure for heart failure but the right medications can help alleviate the symptoms, Poon said.
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