• Being over age 30
• High blood Pressure
• Diabetes
• Over Weight
• Selenium Deficiency

There’s no specific test designed to diagnose peripartum cardiomyopathy. Instead, your health provider will use other tests along with the history of the patient.

• Blood tests to check for anemia, electrolyte imbalances
• Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) to check for arrhythmia.
• Chest X-ray to look for signs of heart failure.
• Echocardiogram (echo) to evaluate your heart’s anatomy and function and show any congenital heart disease or valvular diseases. The echo will also show your left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), which is an essential part of your peripartum cardiomyopathy diagnosis.

The best way to prevent peripartum cardiomyopathy is to do whatever you can to keep your heart healthy. While some risk factors can’t be avoided, others can be managed through lifestyle actions such as:

• Eating a heart-healthy diet.
• Getting regular exercise.
• Avoiding cigarettes and alcohol.
• If you have obesity, working with your healthcare provider to find strategies to lower your weight in a healthy way.
• Getting your blood pressure checked regularly and treated if needed.

Complications include:

• Cardiac arrhythmias (can be deadly)
• Congestive heart failure (of both the right and left heart failure)
• Clot formation in the heart which can embolize (travel to other parts of the body)

With a number of homeopathic remedies, this condition can be treated depending on the individualist presentation of symptoms of the patient.