At least 26 million people worldwide experience chronic heart failure due, in part
to the aging of the population and increased longevity associated with improvements
in cardiac treatment and increasing adoption of western lifestyles in developing countries.
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Heart failure is a significant and growing cause of morbidity and mortality and excessive
health care costs, while symptoms, an important and distressing part of the experience
of heart failure, contribute in important ways to poor quality of life and functional
deficits, as well as excessive health care resource utilization, and other outcomes.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Reference
- Global public health burden of heart failure.Card Fail Rev. 2017; 3: 7-11
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Published online: May 23, 2018
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