Experts estimate that heart failure, a disease in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body, affects 64 million people worldwide.
Other diseases that weaken the heart muscle, such as coronary heart disease, as well as unhealthy lifestyle habits such as smoking and heavy drinking, can cause heart failure.
According to recent research from Michigan State University, a person’s likelihood of heart failure can be predicted by the loss of the sense of smell.
“Loss of smell or impairment affects one in four adults,” said Honglei Chen, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine and lead author of the study. .
“Over the past two decades, we have learned that the loss of smell is one of the most important symptoms of dementia,” Chen said of pneumonia, functional decline, and weakness.”
