Heart failure awareness week: February 14–21

Heart failure awareness week: February 14-21.

The statistics pertaining to heart failure are awesome. It now affects 4.6 million Americans, and 400,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. After a diagnosis is made, less than 50% of patients survive more than five years, and less than 25% survive more than 10 years. Class IV heart failure carries about a 50% mortality in one year. Deaths from heart failure rose 120% from 1979 to 1996, and ho...

Announcement: Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week — February 7–14, 2017

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week is observed each year during February 7-14 to promote awareness and education about congenital heart defects (CHDs). CHDs affect approximately one in 100 births every year in the United States and are the most common type of birth defect (1,2). Heart defects are conditions that persons live with throughout their lives; an estimated 1 million children and 1...

General public awareness of heart failure: results of questionnaire survey during Heart Failure Awareness Day 2011

INTRODUCTION General public views about heart failure (HF) alone and in comparison with other chronic conditions are largely unknown; thus we conducted this survey to evaluate general public awareness about HF and HF disease burden relative to common chronic disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey during European Heart Failure Awareness Day 2011. People visiting the st...

Anaesthesia and Heart Failure Anaesthesia Tutorial of the Week

Eating chocolate twice a week reduces heart failure incidence.