Fortunate are the apes of Kerchak that their kind is not subject toheart failure, for the methods of Tarzan subjected them to one severe shock after another, nor could they ever accustom themselves to the ape-man's peculiar style of humor.

He says that everything points to its being a simple case ofheart failure."

He was for three years, at its commencement, editor of 'The Cornhill Magazine.' He died in 1863 at the age of fifty-two, ofheart failure.

The researchers found that 24 percent of the 3,567 patients without diabetes at baseline developedheart failure, compared with 33 percent of the 647 patients with diabetes during a median follow-up of 36 months.

The findings, described in the journal Circulation, suggest that consistently participating in the recommended 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity each week, such as brisk walking or biking, in middle age can reduce theheart failure risk by 31 per cent.

In this scenario, the importance of risk predicting tools that indicate prognosis inheart failure comes into action.

Preventingheart failure doesn't require heroic measures.

A special word about obesity: A Framingham Heart Study analysis concluded that, after other cardiovascular risk factors were controlled for, obese individuals had double the risk of new-onsetheart failure, compared with normal weight subjects, during a mean follow-up of 14 years.

According to the Chairman of the group, who is a Consultant Cardiologist from Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Michael Olabode Balogun, 'Heart failure is deadlier than HIV and all cancers put together except for lung cancer'.

Dr Amr Badr, consultant cardiologist at Heart Hospital and head of theHeart Failure Clinic, said in recent years, there has been an increase in the incidence of patients seeking medical attention forheart failure.

High cardiac filling pressures in patients withheart failure are associated with a higher risk of hospitalization and mortality, regardless of left ventricular ejection fraction.

As a result of these advances, people who would have succumbed to heart disease in mid-life face an epidemic ofheart failure in their later years.