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Heart failure has high prevalence, morbidity, and mortality in Portugal, but awareness is poor among the public and policy makers.
This consensus statement provides adaptable strategies to improve the awareness, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of heart failure in Portugal.
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Guides Portugal-specific HF management; extends international consensus with national epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations.
Heart failure is a syndrome with high prevalence, morbidity and mortality, but awareness of the disease is poor among the general public and policy makers. This document, which was prepared by a group of experts consisting of cardiologists, internists and general practitioners, aims to set out in detail the problem of heart failure in Portugal at several levels: burden of the disease, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring. To this end, different aspects of the management of the various stages of the disease are identified and discussed in detail, covering both outpatients and hospitalized patients. In order to optimize the medical care provided to these patients, various short-, medium- and long-term solutions and strategies are put forward that have the potential to improve the integration and use of available resources. The intention is to highlight strategies that are not based on a single model but can be adapted to different regional circumstances, in order to increase awareness and improve management of heart failure in Portugal.
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Fonseca et al. (2017) conducted a review in Heart failure. A consensus statement by Portuguese experts outlines strategies to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of heart failure across different regional circumstances in Portugal.
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