Even if your heart is weak, strengthening your other muscles will enable your body to function more efficiently with your heart in its current state. There are many new medicines in the pipeline for heart failure treatment. Also, heart transplants are getting safer all the time, for those patients with no other medical options. In addition, there are investigations ongoing about using gene therapy to strengthen heart muscle. I hope you find this information useful.
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