منابع مشابه
[Epidemiology of heart failure].
During the past decades incidence and prevalence of heart failure has markedly increased. This contrasts with most other cardiovascular diseases, which have declined. Among people aged 80 years and over prevalence may be as high as several percent of the population. According to the high prevalence of the disease, the high frequency of outpatient consultations, but in particular because of a hi...
متن کامل[Epidemiology of heart failure].
Of all persons aged over 40 years, approximately 1% have heart failure. The prevalence of heart failure doubles with each decade of life, and is around 10% in persons over 70 years of age. In Spain, heart failure causes nearly 80,000 hospital admissions every year. As in other developed countries, heart failure is the most frequent cause of hospitalization among persons 65 years of age and over...
متن کاملEpidemiology of heart failure.
Analysis of 34 years of follow-up of Framingham Study data provides clinically relevant insights into the prevalence, incidence, secular trends, prognosis, and modifiable risk factors for the occurrence of heart failure in a general population sample. Heart failure was found to be highly prevalent, affecting about 1% of persons in their 50s and rising progressively with age to afflict 10% of pe...
متن کاملEpidemiology of Heart Failure
Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome occurring as the end result of many different forms of heart disease. There are many different definitions and classifications of heart failure (Table 1.1) but a simple, practical definition of the syndrome of heart failure is that it is characterized by typical symptoms such as shortness of breath, exercise limitation and fatigue and clinical signs ...
متن کاملEpidemiology of heart failure.
Heart failure (HF) has been singled out as an epidemic and is a staggering clinical and public health problem, associated with significant mortality, morbidity, and healthcare expenditures, particularly among those aged ≥ 65 years. The case mix of HF is changing over time with a growing proportion of cases presenting with preserved ejection fraction for which there is no specific treatment. Des...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JACC: Basic to Translational Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2452-302X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2017.07.010