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Heart failure incidence and prevalence among young adults have increased over the last 35 years, leading to a 36-year reduction in life expectancy for those diagnosed at age 20.
Highlights the growing epidemic of heart failure in young adults and the severe impact on life expectancy, calling for urgent action on risk factors.
Both incidence in and prevalence of heart failure among young adults have been increasing over the last 35 years. Mortality is high and if a person gets heart failure at the age of 20, he/she is expected to live 36 years less than a person of the same age without heart failure. Therefore, everything must be done to stop the increase of heart failure in young adults. To do this, it is important to make both the profession and society aware of the ongoing heart failure epidemic, diagnose and treat known risk factors, and search for more, as yet unknown risk factors in young adults
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Schaufelberger et al. (2022) conducted an editorial in Heart failure in young adults. Heart failure incidence and prevalence among young adults have increased over the last 35 years, leading to a 36-year reduction in life expectancy for those diagnosed at age 20.
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