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Conditioned Nutritional Requirements of the Failing Heart

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Nutrients, Stress, and Medical Disorders

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Congestive heart failure has emerged as a major health problem during the past four decades (Bourassa et al., 1993). In spite of our advances, the underlying heart disease is relentlessly progressive in almost all patients who develop symptoms of overt failure, and mortality continues to be unacceptably high—approx 40% in 5 yr (Bourassa et al., 1993). Heart transplantation appears to be the only prospect to improve long-term survival for many patients.

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Sole, M.J. (2006). Conditioned Nutritional Requirements of the Failing Heart. In: Yehuda, S., Mostofsky, D.I. (eds) Nutrients, Stress, and Medical Disorders. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-952-4:341

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