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Heart failure is a growing national epidemic in the United States affecting nearly 5 million people, requiring practitioners to appropriately apply expanding medication and device therapy options.
Highlights the growing epidemic of heart failure in the United States and the increasing complexity of its management with medications and devices.
In Brief Heart failure is becoming a national epidemic. Nearly 5 million people in the United States have heart failure, and more than 550,000 are diagnosed each year. Heart failure treatment now includes more options than ever before, encompassing both medications and device therapies. Practitioners are thus required to appropriately apply the best treatment options available at the right time in the course of their patient's disease.
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Rasmusson et al. (2006) conducted a review in Heart failure. Heart failure is a growing national epidemic in the United States affecting nearly 5 million people, requiring practitioners to appropriately apply expanding medication and device therapy options.
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