Recognizing Heart Failure Awareness Week

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...

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...

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...

Diabetes medications and heart failure: recognizing the risk.

T he diabetes pandemic is currently among the most challenging noncommunicable disease threats to public health. It is estimated that 382 million people worldwide have diabetes mellitus, and the majority will likely die of cardio-vascular disease. Diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and heart failure, with a 5-fold increased risk of heart f...

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