What Is Not Known About Congestive Heart Disease

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What Is Not Known About Congestive Heart Disease

Axia College of University of Phoenix

What Is 2 When people hear they have congestive heart disease, there are millions of question running through their heads. What is congestive heart disease and how does it affect the heart? Congestive heart disease affects hundreds of people every day, and it is important to be aware before hand what congestive heart disease is and what the cause and treatments are for this disease. With this information ahead of the possibility of having congestive heart disease, a person can take the precaution needed to prevent getting congestive heart disease.

What is congestive heart disease or better known as congestive heart failure? Congestive heart disease (failure) does not necessarily mean that the heart has quit working. What congestive heart disease (failure) means is that the heart's pumping power is getting weaker, and cannot keep the blood flowing through the heart, lungs, and body, which causes an inability of oxygen and nutrients to meet the needs in the body, and with the slow blood flow, a pressure begins to build within the heart. As the pressure builds in the heart, the chambers of the heart expand, stretching so that they can hold more blood and send more blood throughout the body. This helps the heart for a brief time, but soon the heart muscled walls weaken more and cannot get a strong enough pumping motion. When this happens parts of the body began to react, such as the kidneys. The kidneys response is to retain fluid (water) and sodium and this causes...