What is Heart failure?
What is Heart failure?
- Heart failure: Slow failure of the heart (cardiac insufficiency).
- Heart failure: Loss of blood-pumping ability by
the heart.
(Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Heart Failure: NHLBI)
- Heart failure: A state of subnormal or depressed cardiac output, usually seen in patients with heart failure secondary to coronary artery, hypertensive, primary myocardial, valvular, or pericardial disease.
Source - Diseases Database
- Heart failure: inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Heart failure: Introduction
Types of Heart failure:
Types of Heart failure:
Broader types of Heart failure:
How many people get Heart failure?
Prevalance of Heart failure: 4.8 million (NHLBI); 2 to 3 million Americans (NHLBI)
Prevalance Rate of Heart failure: approx 1 in 56 or 1.76% or 4.8 million people in USA [about data]
Incidence (annual) of Heart failure: 550,000 new cases (NHLBI); 400,000 new cases annually
Incidence Rate of Heart failure: approx 1 in 494 or 0.20% or 550,000 people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Heart failure:
Between 2 to 3 million
Americans have heart failure (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Heart Failure: NHLBI)
Incidence of Heart failure: 400,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Heart Failure: NHLBI)
Who gets Heart failure?
Profile for Heart failure: The
condition is slightly more common among men than women and is twice as common
among African Americans as whites.
(Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Heart Failure: NHLBI)
How serious is Heart failure?
Complications of Heart failure:
see complications of Heart failure
5-year survival rate for Heart failure: About two-thirds of all
patients die within 5 years of diagnosis. (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Heart Failure: NHLBI)
Deaths for Heart failure: 54,913 deaths reported in USA 1999 (NVSR Sep 2001); 39,000 deaths a year (NHLBI)
What causes Heart failure?
Causes of Heart failure: see causes of Heart failure
Risk factors for Heart failure:
see
risk factors for Heart failure
What are the symptoms of Heart failure?
Symptoms of Heart failure:
see symptoms of Heart failure
Complications of Heart failure:
see complications of Heart failure
Can anyone else get Heart failure?
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Heart failure
Heart failure: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Heart failure.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Heart failure.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Heart failure:
see treatments for Heart failure
Prevention of Heart failure:
see prevention of Heart failure
Research for Heart failure:
see research for Heart failure
Society issues for Heart failure
Costs of Heart failure: $3.4 billion in 1995 in the USA
Cost statistics for Heart failure:
The following are statistics from various sources about costs and Heart failure:
- Over 625 million pounds per year in direct medical costs in the UK (The British Heart Foundation, 2004)
- Inpatient care accounts for about 60% of total cost of heart failure in the UK (The British Heart Foundation, 2004)
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Hospitalizations for Heart failure: 975,000 (NHLBI 1999)
Hospitalization statistics for Heart failure:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Heart failure:
- 205 per 100,000 rate for hospitalizations for heart failure in Canada 1995 Surveillance on-line, 1998 LCDC, Health Canada)
- 0.842% (107,471) of hospital consultant episodes were for heart failure in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 65% of hospital consultant episodes for heart failure required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 50% of hospital consultant episodes for heart failure were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- more statistics...»
Physician office visits for Heart failure: 2,684,000 (NHLBI 1999)
Organs Affected by Heart failure:
Organs and body systems related to Heart failure include:
Name and Aliases of Heart failure
Main name of condition: Heart failure
Other names or spellings for Heart failure:
cardiac failure, cardiac insufficiency
Low cardiac output, Cardiac failure, low output
Source - Diseases Database
Coronary failure
Source - WordNet 2.1
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