Disease management programs for heart failure: Not just for the ‘sick’ heart failure population

Heart failure disease management programs: not a class effect.

Heart failure (HF) remains a major public health problem that affects 5 million patients in the United States.1 HF is the leading cause of hospitalization for people 65 years of age and older, and rates of hospital readmission within 6 months range from 25% to 50%.1,2 The personal burden of HF includes debilitating symptoms, frequent rehospitalizations, and high rates of mortality.2 HF also pos...

Emerging Drug Therapies for Heart Failure

Heart failure is associated with high morbidity and mortality and is proving to be an economic burden in developing countries. A number of therapeutic agents are presently employed in heart failure; but they are not sufficient to control symptoms of heart failure. Moreover, the prevalence of chronic heart failure is progressively increasing and thus there is a continuing need to develop effecti...

Disease Management for Heart Failure

s from more than 4800 biomedical journals [4] Di se as e M an ag em en t f or H ea r F ai lu re published in the United States and 70 other countries. Topics span the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Earlier versions of this bibliography were based on searches of the MEDLINE database for the period from January 19...

Heart failure: not just the heart but also the lungs.

Food Insecurity Status in Heart Failure Patients in Iranian Population

Background: We were conducted this study to assess the prevalence of food insecurity in heart failure patients households and the relationship between food security and some variables in this households. Methods: In this cross sectional study, a total of 300 heart failure patients' households were studied in Imam Reza hospital of Mashhad. The Iranian version of household food insecurity access ...