CARDIOOGY HEART FAILURE NOTES.

CARDIOOGY
HEART FAILURE
NOTES.

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, • Heart Failure




“Stop telling us what to do and teach us how to do it”
(anonymous woman with chronic heart failure)

, NUMBER of PATIENTS ECONOMIC BURDEN
21 MILLION adults worldwide are In 2012, the overall worldwide cost
living with heart failure of heart failure was nearly $108
This number is expected to rise. BILLION.



MORTALITY
50% of heart failure patients die within
5 years from diagnosis.




REHOSPITALISATION COMORBIDITIES: The vast
Heart failure is the NUMBER 1 cause majority of HF patients has 3 or
of hospitalisation for patients aged more comorbidities
>65 years.