منابع مشابه
Healthy Lifestyle and Risk of Heart Failure
Despite the well-publicized decline in incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke in the United States over the past half century, prevalence and incidence of heart failure (HF) have not experienced a parallel decline. Approximately 5.5 million Americans currently have chronic HF, which represents the most common reason for hospitalization among Medicare recipients. Annual heathcare costs f...
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Despite advances in medical and surgical management, the prognosis of chronic heart failure remains poor. Few patients with chronic heart failure can be considered to have a good prognosis, but different trials have indicated a 6 month mortality between 5% and 60% depending on the severity of heart failure; identifying patients at truly low risk is difficult. A host of factors have been identif...
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CONTEXT We devised a risk appraisal function to assess the hazard of heart failure in persons who are predisposed by coronary disease, hypertension, or valvular heart disease. OBJECTIVE To provide general practitioners and internists with a cost-effective method to select people at high risk who are likely to have impaired left ventricular systolic function and may therefore require further e...
متن کاملHealthy Lifestyle and Risk of Heart Failure
Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of hospitalization, morbidity, and mortality worldwide and is associated with high healthcare costs. In individuals >40 years of age, the overall lifetime risk of HF is 1 in 5, and this condition contributes to 1 in 9 deaths. Thus, identification of modifiable factors for primary prevention of HF is of outmost importance for decreasing disease bur...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation: Heart Failure
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1941-3289,1941-3297
DOI: 10.1161/circheartfailure.114.001459