All known drugs prolong survival but cannot prevent final failure of the heart.
Cardiovascular diseases kill more people than any other single disease.
The search for reliable preventive methods should vigorously be pursued. You are visitor . Surprisingly, various potential drug targets have not been used until now, simply because they do not provide an acute improvement of heart function but rather alter gene expression of the cardiomyocyte. A high blood pressure and coronary artery disease are the major risk factors for heart failure. Heart failure is typically associated with ventricular hypertrophy.