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Yet another type of cardiovascular disease is congestive heart failure. We also call this simply heart failure, and this is where your heart is too weak to pump blood effectively throughout the body, and so you might have a backup of fluids in the lungs, the legs, the arms, etc.—other parts of your body—and the development of congestive heart failure can result, slowly over time, from previous heart attacks, hypertension, could result from heart defects at birth, and many other reasons.