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Symptoms and signs of heart failure sometimes called congestive heart failure can be difficult to identify and describe, and it is often diagnosed quite late. If you or the person you are caring for has risk factors for heart disease, such as being a smoker or a former smoker and having high blood pressure or coronary artery disease (CAD), it’s a good idea to be on the look out for heart failure. Taken by themselves, any one of the symptoms listed here probably isn’t cause for alarm, but two or more are good cause to call your doctor for an evaluation. 1. Shortness of breath particularly when sleeping or lying down.   One of the characteristic symptoms of heart failure is waking during the night or in the morning feeling as if you can’t breathe deeply or can’t catch your breath.  What it feels like : A feeling of compression in the chest and lungs. Making it difficult to take a deep breath, particularly during exertion or when lying down. Difficulty in sleeping ...

At least 600 young people die every year as a result of sudden death syndrome an umbrella term for the many different causes of cardiac arrest in young people. Cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack where one of the arteries supplying the heart is blocked with a blood clot, starving the heart muscles of oxygen rich blood. This death in young people are often triggered by sporting activities, which puts pressure on the heart. Recently, Bolton wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapse during a match on Saturday and was rushed to the hospital, after 78 minutes, he was revived. Some few weeks after Muamba aftermath, an Italian second division soccer player Morosini a midfielder for livorno also collapse after a cardiac arrest in the 31st minute of the match at pescara Italy and never regain consciousness. A month before the incidence, former Italian volleyball international and Olympic silver medalist vigor borolenta 37 died on the court in a fourth division game after ...