Abstract Analysis of 34 years of follow-up of Framingham Study data provides clinically
relevant insights into the prevalence, incidence, secular trends, prognosis, and modifiable …

Congestive heart failure has become an increasingly frequent reason for hospital admission
during the last 2 decades and clearly represents a major health problem. Data from the …

Background Heart failure is a major public health problem. Long-term trends in the
incidence of heart failure and survival after its onset in the community have not been …

ContextThe epidemic of heart failure has yet to be fully investigated, and data on incidence,
survival, and sex-specific temporal trends in community-based populations are limited …

The epidemiologic investigation of heart failure evolution by the Framingham Heart Study
has provided vital clues concerning the pathogenesis, predisposing conditions, other …

Despite the paucity of epidemiologic work on congestive heart failure (CHF), the salient
features of the natural course of cardiac failure are understood. The estimated 1983 …

Epidemiologic data from the Framingham Study provide insights into the population burden
of heart failure (CHF), its prognosis and modifiable risk factors that promote it. In the general …

This article reviews the recent literature and data on the incidence, prevalence, and causes
of congestive heart failure and the resultant mortality and morbidity from this condition. We …

Mortality is examined in patients with cardiac failure in the Framingham study of 5209
subjects. During 30 years of follow-up, the incidence of cardiac failure doubled with each …

Few conditions in medicine have a prognosis as bleak as chronic heart failure (1, 2), but
recent developments have engendered hope that matters may be improving. There is now a …