round 175,000 New Zealanders live with heart failure. It is another of those conditions that become more likely as we age and, although there is no cure, it can be managed with a range of medications. Heart failure doesn’t mean the heart has actually failed or stopped, but that pumping enough blood around the body has become harder. This may be because the heart muscle has stretched and weakened, or it may have thickened and stiffened, or been irreversibly
