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Systolic Heart Failure
Reduced heart muscle function, resulting in shortness of breath and leg swelling. Systolic heart failure may result from long-standing and untreated hypertension, untreated mitral and aortic insufficiency, a viral infection to the heart muscle, hypothyroidism, incessant tachycardia, or a heart attack that causes a large amount of muscle damage.
Globe (May 31, 2010)
