Maintain fitness in midlife to lower risk of heart failure
When the heart cannot pump sufficient blood, the condition is called heart failure. Age is a risk factor for heart failure (a leading cause of hospitalization among people insured by Medicare), as is being African-American. Other risk factors are being overweight and having diabetes or coronary heart disease.
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