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The heart failure epidemic is primarily driven by improved survival rather than increased incidence, resulting in a growing burden of hospitalizations that requires targeted interventions.
The heart failure epidemic is primarily driven by improved survival leading to increased prevalence and hospitalizations, rather than increased incidence.
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Focuses clinical efforts on prevalent HF to ease hospitalization burden; leaves open incidence trends amid evolving prevention.
Heart failure has been singled out as an emerging epidemic, which could be the result of increased incidence and/or increased survival leading to increased prevalence. Knowledge of the responsibility of each factor in the genesis of the epidemic is crucial for prevention. Population-based studies have shown that, over time, the incidence of heart failure remained overall stable, while survival improved. Therefore, the heart failure epidemic is chiefly one of hospitalizations. Data on temporal trends in the incidence and prevalence of heart failure according to ejection fraction and how it may have changed over time are needed while interventions should focus on reducing the burden of hospitalizations in hear failure.
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Véronique L. Roger (2010) conducted a review in Heart failure. The heart failure epidemic is primarily driven by improved survival rather than increased incidence, resulting in a growing burden of hospitalizations that requires targeted interventions.
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