Heart failure, sometimes known as congestive heart failure, occurs when your heart muscle doesn’t pump blood as well as it should. Certain conditions, such as narrowed arteries in your heart (coronary artery disease) or high blood pressure, gradually leave your heart too weak or stiff to fill and pump efficiently. Not all conditions that lead…

Cardiovascular disease can refer to a number of conditions:   Heart disease   Heart and blood vessel disease (also called heart disease) includes numerous problems, many of which are related to a process called atherosclerosis.   Atherosclerosis is a condition that develops when a substance called plaque builds up in the walls of the arteries. This buildup…

High blood pressure is a common condition in which the long-term force of the blood against your artery walls is high enough that it may eventually cause health problems, such as heart disease.   Blood pressure is determined both by the amount of blood your heart pumps and the amount of resistance to blood flow…