Changes in Salt Taste Sensitivity and Heart Failure Readmissions

Hospital Strategies to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions

Heart failure (HF) currently affects 6.5 million adults in the United States (1), and its prevalence is projected to increase by 25% by 2030 (2). Hospitalization represents a turning point in the natural history of HF, with a combined mortality and readmission rate of 30% within 90 days post-discharge; one-quarter of patients are readmitted within 30 days (3,4). Hospitalizations are responsible...

Heart Failure Interventions to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Salt taste sensitivity, physical activity and gastric cancer.

BACKGROUND Gastric cancer is a major health issue in China. Risk factors are mainly related to nutrition and environment, with a particular role for high salt intake. The salt taste sensitivity threshold (STST) can influence salt consumption, and is therefore assumed to have association with gastric cancer. It was therefore assessed, together with other lifestyle factors, in the present study i...

Hospital readmissions and death from Heart Failure--rates still alarming.

BACKGROUND Patients who require hospitalization because of decompensated HF represent a group of the most seriously ill individuals who evolve with high mortality and hospital readmission rates. OBJECTIVES We sought to evaluate the current natural course of HF by analyzing mortality and readmission rates in this new era of neurohormonal blockage. METHODS We followed the progress of 263 pati...

Multitype Events and the Analysis of Heart Failure Readmissions

Urgent heart failure (HF) visits, including emergency department (ED) visits, are important. They do not always result in a hospital admission but are linked to subsequent hospitalizations and death. Since many years may elapse before death and hospital and ED visits are amenable to interventions, these outcomes provide a metric for disease progression and quality of life and more attainable sa...