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- Heart failure is a significant and ever increasing public health concern in the United States and is associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity. Close to 5 million people in the US have HF. This accounts for more than 700,000 hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries every year, and heart failure is the most common hospital discharge diagnosis for patients 65 and older.
- Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome that can be the result of structural or functional abnormalities from disease or injury. Because not all heart failure patients have volume overload, or congestion, the ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult (available on the web sites of ACC at www.acc.org and the AHA at www.americanheart.org ) promotes replacing the use of older terminology “congestive heart failure” with just “heart failure”.
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