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Introduction to Heart Failure

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Heart failure (HF) constitutes an important and escalating clinical and public health problem. The overall prevalence of clinically evident HF is around 5–20 cases/1,000 population, but rises to >100 cases/1,000 population in subjects aged >65 years. The overall annual incidence of clinically overt HF in middle-aged men and women is approximately 0.1–0.2%, but with each additional decade of life there is a doubling of the rate. Patients with HF frequently suffer from clinical decompensation requiring hospital admissions. These patients who are admitted and discharged with a diagnosis have a high readmission rate in which these rates appear to be steadily increasing in all industrialized countries, especially among older individuals. In this introductory chapter, contemporary data on the epidemiology, risk factors, as well as the clinical phenotypes of HF will be reviewed.

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Marín-García, J. (2010). Introduction to Heart Failure. In: Heart Failure. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-147-9_1

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