Heart failure refers to a variety of causes of heart pumping insufficiency causing corresponding symptoms, which can have a variety of causes, including high blood pressure. However, hypertension is not the only cause.
A sharp increase in blood pressure over a short period of time and corresponding target organ dysfunction is called a hypertensive emergency, which can directly induce acute heart failure or trigger acute coronary syndromes that lead to acute heart failure. Long-term chronic hypertension can increase cardiac afterload, causing compensatory hypertrophy of cardiomyocytes and myocardial interstitial fibrosis, leading to left ventricular hypertrophy and enlargement, which in turn causes chronic heart failure.
In addition to increased blood pressure, many other factors can also lead to heart failure, such as fluid overload, severe arrhythmia, coronary artery disease, myocardial disease, infections, etc. It is recommended that patients go to the hospital as soon as possible to get a clear picture of the cause of heart failure in time, and early intervention to avoid serious complications.