Some heart failure patients are proving that one size doesn’t fit all.

Gain weight. Eat more cholesterol. Raise your blood pressure. You’re unlikely to get or follow contrarian advice like this from any cardiologist you trust. But for a select group of heart failure patients, clinicians like Wilson Tang, M.D., at Cleveland Clinic say that the usual rules don’t seem to apply.

Dr. Tang continues to warn most of his overweight patients that extra pounds can be dangerous to heart health. So can abnormally high levels of total cholesterol, and elevated blood pressure. …

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