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Cardiomyopathy is a disease that can lead to heart failure. It is a disease that affects your heart muscles making it difficult for your heart to pump blood to the rest of your body.
Symptoms:
The early stages of cardiomyopathy may have little or no symptoms. However, as the disease progresses the symptoms can become severe. Be sure to always be aware of your numbers, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).
Symptoms include:
Risk Factors:
Some risk factors you can’t help, like family history of cardiomyopathy. However, there are ways to reduce your risk and the first step is to know the risk factors:
Prevention
Now that you know what risk factors to avoid, try these steps to reduce your risk of cardiomyopathy as well as many other heart related issues:
Sources: American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institut