Overall, women have a better survival rate than men (irrespective of heart failure etiology), but improvements in survival over time show a higher benefit in men. Women tend to have higher heart ...

Hypertension is a predominant etiology for heart failure among African Americans with an aggressive incidence of end-organ damage. Despite the advances in treatment of heart failure with ...

This causes an effective increase in afterload, left ventricular hypertrophy and, eventually, symptoms of congestive heart failure. The classic triad of symptoms from aortic stenosis are angina ...