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American Heart Association: “About Heart Failure.”
American Heart Association: “Heart Failure.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Heart Failure Fact Sheet.”
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: “What is Heart Failure?”
Mayo Clinic, “Heart Failure.”
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: “What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Heart Failure?”
American Heart Association: “Lifestyle Changes for Heart Failure.”
American Heart Association: “Devices and Surgeries to Treat Heart Failure.”
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: “How Can Heart Failure Be Prevented?”
Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, director, cardiomyopathy and heart failure program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston; professor, Harvard Medical School.
Reviewed by Melinda Ratini, DO, MS on June 19, 2016
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