How to Use congestive heart failure in a Sentence

congestive heart failure

noun
  • Glaxo’s patent is for the use of the compound carvedilol to lessen the chance of death from congestive heart failure.
    Susan Decker, Bloomberg.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, his sons, Hugh and Stephen, said.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said a son, Omar Pasha.
    Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said a son, Bruce Phillips.
    Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Some of the patients, sick with congestive heart failure, will wait for a heart.
    Jonathan Reiner, CNN, 15 Jan. 2022
  • His wife, Joyce Garvin Kapp, said the cause was congestive heart failure.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 5 July 2019
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said his son Hugh Pocock.
    Emily Langer, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
  • His wife, Karen Rice, said the cause was congestive heart failure.
    New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
  • His wife, Joan Roland, said the cause was congestive heart failure.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, his wife, Jill Bokor, said.
    Fred A. Bernstein, New York Times, 26 May 2024
  • Her son Dean Hall said the cause was congestive heart failure.
    New York Times, 15 May 2021
  • His niece Lisa Sturz said the cause was congestive heart failure.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 June 2021
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said her son, Phillip Thomas Jr.
    Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020
  • His son Russ said the cause was congestive heart failure.
    New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • His son Lance said the cause was congestive heart failure.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, his son Charles said.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said a daughter-in-law, Erin Heath.
    Washington Post, 9 July 2019
  • The heart gets weaker, which can lead to congestive heart failure.
    William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said Jason D. Meininger, a close friend.
    New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said a son, Thomas Morgan.
    Washington Post, 8 July 2020
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said a son, Ray Vickery.
    Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said a daughter, Katie Teague.
    Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said a grandson, Galen Mook.
    Bart Barnes, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Neumeier, who had been in hospice for eight weeks, died of congestive heart failure and heart disease, his wife Michele told the Globe.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2021
  • What caused Brentt Leakes' stroke and congestive heart failure?
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said his son John Barton.
    Washington Post, 31 May 2021
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said his son Christopher King.
    Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said his son Ken Donovan.
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
  • Hours later, Flair was in the early stages of kidney failure and close to congestive heart failure, the result of alcohol abuse.
    Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The treatment of heart failure itself—rather than the disease that causes heart failure, like HCM—tends to focus on the treatment of congestive heart failure, specifically.
    Lori Oliwenstein, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024

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