A Visual Guide to Heart Disease




 
 

5.Heart Muscle Disease: Cardiomyopathy
Abnormal heart muscle, or cardiomyopathy, makes it hard to pump and carry blood to the rest of your body. Over time, health problems such as high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes can cause this serious condition, which can lead to heart failure.

 

6.Heart Failure
This doesn’t mean your heart stops working. It means the organ can’t pump enough blood to meet your body’s needs. So over time, it gets bigger and pumps faster. This weakens the muscle and lowers the amount of blood flowing out even more, which adds to the problem. Most cases of heart failure are the result of coronary artery disease and heart attacks.