Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, chief of cardiology, vice dean for diversity and inclusion and Magerstadt Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Dr. Yancy is the past president of the American Heart Association. His research has been widely published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, JAMA Cardiology and other leading professional journals.
Heart failure (HF)—also known as congestive heart failure—has traditionally been a gut-wrenching diagnosis because it gets worse over time and…