How has the incidence of heart failure after myocardial infarction changed over recent decades?
Improved survival after myocardial infarction has been accompanied by a parallel increase in the incidence of heart failure.
In the present community-based sample, we observed an increase in the incidence of heart failure in recent decades that paralleled the decrease in mortality after MI.
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