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 - Glossary: learn the definitions of the keywords used in this site
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- Activity and exercise
 - Adjusting your diet
 - Adjusting your diet: Alcohol
 - Adjusting your diet: Diabetic diet
 - Adjusting your diet: Fats and cholesterol
 - Adjusting your diet: fluids
 - Adjusting your diet: Links to recipes
 - Adjusting your diet: Maintaining a healthy weight
 - Adjusting your diet: Potassium
 - Adjusting your diet: Salt
 - Immunisations
 - Keeping other medical conditions under control
 - Medicine chart
 - Questions to ask your doctor, pharmacist or nurse about your medicines
 - Sex and heart failure
 - Smoking / Vaping
 - Tips for remembering to take your medicines
 - Introduction
 - Taking your own blood pressure and pulse
 - Adapting your lifestyle
 - Managing your medicines
 - Support groups
 
 - What your doctor can do
- ACE (Angiotensin converting enzyme) inhibitors
 - Aldosterone receptor antagonists or mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRAs)
 - Angiography
 - Angiotensin Receptor-Neprilysin Inhibitor (ARNi) – Sacubitril/Valsartan
 - Antiarrhythmics
 - Anticoagulants and new oral anticoagulants
 - Antiplatelet treatment
 - ARBs (Angiotensin II receptor blockers)
 - Beta blockers
 - Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT)
 - Catheter ablation of arrhythmias in heart failure
 - Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)
 - Digitalis
 - Diuretics
 - Heart Transplantation
 - Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICDs)
 - Iron therapy in patients with heart failure and iron deficiency
 - Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD)
 - Medicine chart
 - Medicines for acute heart failure
 - Nitrates / Vasodilators
 - Pacemakers
 - Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
 - Questions to ask your doctor, pharmacist or nurse about your medicines
 - sGC stimulators
 - SGLT2 (Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2) inhibitors
 - Sinus node inhibitors
 - Statins
 - Stenting
 - The importance of taking your medicines
 - Valve surgery
 - What about alternative or natural remedies?
 - Introduction
 - People that may be involved in your care
 - Heart failure clinics and management programmes
 - Telemonitoring / Remote Patient Monitoring / Telemetry
 - Heart failure medicines
 - Implantable devices
 - Surgery
 - Other procedures
 - Questions to ask your doctor or nurse
 - Getting involved in clinical trials
 
 - Heart failure causes and other common medical conditions
- Taking your own blood pressure and heart rate (pulse)
 - Common heart conditions
 - Coronary artery disease
 - Past heart attacks
 - High blood pressure
 - Valvular Heart Disease and Heart Failure
 - Abnormal heart rhythm / Atrial fibrillation
 - Heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy and inflammation)
 - Adult congenital heart disease
 - Other common medical conditions and heart failure
 - Diabetes
 - Lung Disease
 - Chronic kidney disease
 - Anaemia
 - Iron deficiency
 - Elevated Potassium levels (Hyperkalaemia)
 - Cancer therapy and heart failure
 - Infection
 - Abnormal thyroid function
 - Obesity, anorexia
 - Central sleep apnoea
 - Gout
 - Alcohol/drug abuse
 - Depression and anxiety
 
 - Understanding heart failure
- Blood tests
 - Cardiac catheterisation and angiography
 - Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
 - Chest x-ray
 - Coughing or wheezing
 - Depression and anxiety
 - Dizziness
 - Echocardiogram
 - Electrocardiogram (ECG)
 - Exercise testing
 - How do your heart and body adapt in heart failure?
 - How does the normal heart work? Part 2
 - How heart failure is graded
 - Loss of appetite
 - Lung function tests
 - Medical history and physical examination
 - Multi-slice computer tomography (MSCT)
 - Need to urinate at night
 - Nuclear medicine techniques
 - Rapid heart rate
 - Shortness of breath
 - Swollen ankles
 - Tiredness/fatigue
 - Weight gain
 - Women and heart failure
 - Introduction
 - What is heart failure?
 - Symptoms of heart failure
 - How does the normal heart work?
 - What are the different types of heart failure?
 - Common tests for heart failure
 - What is Ejection Fraction? (HFrEF and HFpEF)
 - What goes wrong in heart failure?
 - How can heart failure change over time?
 - Tools used to assess quality of life
 - Heart failure in young people
 - Myths and facts about heart failure
 - What causes heart failure?