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How High Blood Pressure Affects Your Heart and What You Can Do About It

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High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a common condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Often referred to as the silent killer, hypertension can quietly damage your heart and other vital organs over time. What Is High Blood Pressure?

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Understanding an Enlarged Heart (Cardiomegaly): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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Both forms of enlargement may compromise the heart’s ability to pump blood efficiently, leading to further complications like heart failure. What Causes an Enlarged Heart? High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) Persistent high blood pressure forces the heart to work harder to pump blood.

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Pericarditis

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

This is a problem that becomes more troublesome several months or years after the acute event and patients may present with breathlessness, leg swelling and all the signs of heart failure but when you look at the heart it looks like it is pumping ok so you can be misled into thinking that there is no problem with the heart.

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Abstract 4141312: Safe Initial Dosing of Innovative Enalapril Orodispersible Minitablets in Newly Treated Newborns, Infants and Young Children with Heart Failure – Results of a Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis of the LENA Trials

Circulation

Background:Safe dosing in children with heart failure requires consideration of clinically relevant covariates. Conclusion:The newly detected covariate Ross score provides the scientific basis for considering the severity of heart failure at the initial dose.