3 For all these reasons, a substantial focus now exists on improving the care of patients affected by HF. Moreover, HF patients are frequently hospitalized, causing a financial burden on the healthcare system that will not abate soon.
2 Furthermore, although prognosis in HF has improved over the past 50 years, it remains among the most lethal diagnoses in modern medicine, with a mortality rate that equals or exceeds many malignancies. 1 With a lifetime risk for HF of >20% beyond middle age, the crisis is only expected to worsen as the population grows and ages. HF is reaching epidemic proportions, with millions of affected patients in the United States alone and more than half a million new cases yearly. The HF Crisis: Why Do We Need to Consider Alternative Means to Manage Our Patients? Customer Service and Ordering Information.Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology.Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA).Circ: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes.Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB).