The heart is a complex and vital organ that pumps around 6,000 quarts of blood through the body and beats around 100,000 times a day. Risk factors for congestive heart failure include coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, heart valve disease, cardiomyopathy, cigarette smoking, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes.
Congestive heart failure is a syndrome of a ventricular dysfunction, where the heart is not able to pump enough blood with each beat to meet the oxygen requirements of the heart and other body tissues. The heart starts pumping weaker than normal and the blood moves through the heart at a slower rate and pressure in the heart increases and becomes