What is Congestive Heart Failure?
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
- Congestive Heart Failure: Inadequate pumping and decline of heart function common in the elderly.
- Congestive Heart Failure: A heart disease
condition that involves loss of pumping ability by the heart, generally
accompanied by fluid accumulation in body tissues, especially the lungs.
(Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Heart Failure: NHLBI)
- Congestive Heart Failure: inability to pump enough blood to avoid congestion in the tissues.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Congestive Heart Failure: Introduction
Types of Congestive Heart Failure:
Broader types of Congestive Heart Failure:
How many people get Congestive Heart Failure?
Prevalance of Congestive Heart Failure: 4.8 million Americans (NHLBI); 2% age 40-59; 5% age 60-69; 10% over 70's
Prevalance Rate of Congestive Heart Failure: approx 1 in 56 or 1.76% or 4.8 million people in USA [about data]
Incidence (annual) of Congestive Heart Failure: 400,000 new cases annually
Incidence Rate of Congestive Heart Failure: approx 1 in 679 or 0.15% or 400,000 people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Congestive Heart Failure:
An estimated 4.8 million Americans have congestive heart failure (CHF). (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Congestive Heart Failure Data Fact Sheet: NHLBI)
Incidence of Congestive Heart Failure: Each year, there are an estimated 400,000 new cases. (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Congestive Heart Failure Data Fact Sheet: NHLBI)
Who gets Congestive Heart Failure?
Patient Profile for Congestive Heart Failure: Usually older adults; rarely young adults.
Profile for Congestive Heart Failure: The
majority of the nearly 5 million U.S. patients with heart failure are
older than 65 years. (Source: excerpt from Facts About Heart Failure in Older Adults: CDC-OC)
Gender Profile for Congestive Heart Failure: Men and women equally.
How serious is Congestive Heart Failure?
Prognosis of Congestive Heart Failure: Poor. 5-year survival around 50%. About 20% survive longer than 8-12 years.
Complications of Congestive Heart Failure:
see complications of Congestive Heart Failure
Prognosis of Congestive Heart Failure: Results of a new study published in the March 7 issue of Archives
of Internal Medicine suggest that heart failure survival after 6
years in adults 67 years and older on Medicare is very low and may be
worse than the prognosis for most types of cancer. (Source: excerpt from Facts About Heart Failure in Older Adults: CDC-OC)
5-year survival rate for Congestive Heart Failure: Half of the patients diagnosed with CHF will be dead within 5 years. (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Congestive Heart Failure Data Fact Sheet: NHLBI)
Deaths for Congestive Heart Failure: 50,824 deaths (NHLBI 1999); about 260,000 deaths a year (CDC-OC)
What causes Congestive Heart Failure?
Causes of Congestive Heart Failure: see causes of Congestive Heart Failure
Risk factors for Congestive Heart Failure:
see
risk factors for Congestive Heart Failure
What are the symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure?
Symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure:
see symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure
Complications of Congestive Heart Failure:
see complications of Congestive Heart Failure
Congestive Heart Failure: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Congestive Heart Failure.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Congestive Heart Failure.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Congestive Heart Failure:
see treatments for Congestive Heart Failure
Prevention of Congestive Heart Failure:
see prevention of Congestive Heart Failure
Research for Congestive Heart Failure:
see research for Congestive Heart Failure
Society issues for Congestive Heart Failure
Costs of Congestive Heart Failure: $23.2 billion with $21.4b direct, unavailable morbidity, $1.8b mortality (NHLBI 2002); $3.4 billion was paid by Medicare in 1995 (CDC-OC)
Costs of Congestive Heart Failure: In 1995, $3.4 billion was paid by Medicare for heart
failure. (Source: excerpt from Facts About Heart Failure in Older Adults: CDC-OC)
Hospitalizations for Congestive Heart Failure: 962,000 (NHLBI 1999)
Hospitalizations for Congestive Heart Failure: CHF is the first-listed diagnosis in 875,000 hospitalizations, and the most
common diagnosis in hospital patients age 65 years and older. In that age group,
one fifth of all hospitalizations have a primary or secondary diagnosis of heart
failure.
(Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Congestive Heart Failure Data Fact Sheet: NHLBI)
Physician office visits for Congestive Heart Failure: 2,618,000 (NHLBI 1999)
Physician office visits for Congestive Heart Failure: Visits to physicians' offices for CHF increased from 1.7 million in 1980 to
2.9 million in 1993. (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Congestive Heart Failure Data Fact Sheet: NHLBI)
Home Care for Congestive Heart Failure: More than 65,000 persons with CHF receive home care each
year. (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Congestive Heart Failure Data Fact Sheet: NHLBI)
Organs Affected by Congestive Heart Failure:
Organs and body systems related to Congestive Heart Failure include:
Name and Aliases of Congestive Heart Failure
Main name of condition: Congestive Heart Failure
Other names or spellings for Congestive Heart Failure:
congested heart failure, CHF
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