Congestive Heart Failure Literature Review

Heart failure is a very common disease; whereby around 670,000 people are diagnosed with the disease every year (Lien, & Alexis, 2012). There is increased hospitalization of people aged above 65 years because of congestive heart failure. It is characterized with the slow movement of the blood through the heart and an increased pressure in the heart. The heart fails to pump adequate oxygen and nutrients in the body satisfaction. Because of retention of salt and fluid, one might have kidney problems. The issue of congestive heart failure needs to be effectively managed.
Brief literature review
According to the argument put forth by Tissot, da Cruz, and Miyamoto, (2014), many people are diagnosed with congestive heart failure resulting from the major causes such as high blood pressure, increased body weight and shortness of breath as well as diabetes. Tamariz,et al, (2011) identify that high blood pressure is a health condition where a patient experiences flow of blood at a high rate. It is the condition where the high force at which the blood flows is very high and against the
Different technology elements are used to provide care through treatment and monitoring the patient at the care setting and at home. Telemonitoring technology is applied in collaboration with usual care (UC). One should take healthy diets to avoid being overweight and having high blood pressure (Lien, & Alexis, 2012). One should avoid taking meals with high level of cholesterol, but take food cooked with little or no cholesterol, the level of body cholesterol increases. The patient is encouraged to conduct telemonitoring while at home using the structured telephone support. Taking much water would be efficient in enhancing proper circulation of the blood cholesterol and fats in the body since water allows effective digestion of food in the body (Tamariz, et al.