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The global prevalence of heart failure may now exceed 600 million people, as emerging evidence from studies like PORTHOS replaces previous guesswork.
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Editorial
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An editorial discussing the global prevalence of heart failure in the context of the PORTHOS study.
This editorial refers to ‘Heart failure in the Portuguese population aged ≥50 years: prevalence and phenotypes in the PORTHOS study’, by R. Baptista et al.
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Cleland et al. (2026) studied this question. The global prevalence of heart failure may now exceed 600 million people, as emerging evidence from studies like PORTHOS replaces previous guesswork.
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