Heart failure rates are going up in the United States, according to a new report from the American Heart Association.
The same report also said that heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, even as the death rate from heart disease is heading down.
The number of American adults with heart failure — in which the heart is too weak to pump blood throughout the body — rose by 800,000 over five years, the American Heart Association (AHA) said in the report released Thursday.
