Dilemmas of Blood Pressure Management for Heart Failure Prevention
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Dilemmas of blood pressure management for heart failure prevention.
More than 5.5 million individuals in the United States have heart failure (HF), more than a half-million individuals are diagnosed annually, and more than 1 million HF hospitalizations occur yearly.1 Outcomes remain poor, with approximately 50% of patients dying within 5 years of diagnosis.2 These trends will worsen when aging of the 78 million baby boomers will result in 1 in 5 Americans to be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation: Heart Failure
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1941-3289,1941-3297
DOI: 10.1161/circheartfailure.111.961441