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To avoid heart failure, you must prevent the various forms of heart disease that lead to it. To prevent coronary heart disease, eat a healthy, balanced diet, control your blood pressure and cholesterol level, maintain a normal body weight, exercise regularly and don't smoke. Limit alcohol use to one to two drinks per day. Some types of heart failure cannot be prevented.

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