Diastolic Heart Failure Just As Lethal as Typical Heart Failure.

Recent studies document that patients with diastolic heart failure - a form of heart failure with well-preserved heart muscle function, and so supposedly a more "benign" form of heart failure - actually is associated with a risk of mortality similar to the more "classic" form of heart failure. Patients who have been diagnosed with heart failure, and whose ejection fractions are still normal, had better take careful note - and make sure their doctors are taking their condition seriously. Read about diastolic heart failure and what it means here.