Heart Failure Awareness Week: How to recognize symptoms and prevent heart failure

This week is Heart Failure Awareness Week, a week dedicated to recognizing the signs and symptoms of heart failure. Most people don’t know that it happens gradually, not all at once like a heart attack.
According to Dr. Ankie Amos, heart failure is categorized as damage to the heart so that the heart can’t pump blood, or the chambers have issues filling up. That causes fluid to back up, which can cause swelling in a patient’s ankles or stomach.
One sign is decreased energy, ano