Heart Failure from Pressure Overload is Preventable
LabRoots | March 20, 2018
Heart failure that ultimately results from disease factors like high blood pressure can be predicted and potentially prevented. In a new University of Alabama at Birmingham study, scientists show how macrophages from the immune system contribute to pressure overload-related heart failure. Pressure overload that leads to heart failure can either be in the form of high blood pressure or aortic stenosis, a condition where the aortic valve opening in the heart narrows and causes the heart muscle to work harder than it should.