Heart failure: preventing disease and death worldwide

P Ponikowski, SD Anker, KF AlHabib… - ESC heart …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Heart failure is a life‐threatening disease and addressing it should be considered a global
health priority. At present, approximately 26 million people worldwide are living with heart …

The global health and economic burden of hospitalizations for heart failure: lessons learned from hospitalized heart failure registries

AP Ambrosy, GC Fonarow, J Butler, O Chioncel… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - jacc.org
Heart failure is a global pandemic affecting an estimated 26 million people worldwide and
resulting in more than 1 million hospitalizations annually in both the United States and …

EURObservational Research Programme: regional differences and 1‐year follow‐up results of the Heart Failure Pilot Survey (ESC‐HF Pilot)

AP Maggioni, U Dahlström, G Filippatos… - European journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aims The ESC‐HF Pilot survey was aimed to describe clinical epidemiology and 1‐year
outcomes of outpatients and inpatients with heart failure (HF). The pilot phase was also …

National and regional trends in heart failure hospitalization and mortality rates for Medicare beneficiaries, 1998-2008

J Chen, SLT Normand, Y Wang, HM Krumholz - Jama, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Context It is not known whether recent declines in ischemic heart disease and its risk factors
have been accompanied by declines in heart failure (HF) hospitalization and mortality …

Improving care for patients with acute heart failure: before, during and after hospitalization

MR Cowie, SD Anker, JGF Cleland, GM Felker… - ESC heart …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Acute heart failure (AHF) is a common and serious condition that contributes to about 5% of
all emergency hospital admissions in Europe and the USA. Here, we present the …

ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008: the Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart …

Authors/Task Force Members, K Dickstein… - European heart …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
ESC Guidelines 2389 disclosure forms are kept on file at the European Heart House,
headquarters of the ESC. Any changes in conflict of interest that arise during the writing …

Are hospitalized or ambulatory patients with heart failure treated in accordance with European Society of Cardiology guidelines? Evidence from 12 440 patients of the …

AP Maggioni, SD Anker, U Dahlström… - European journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To evaluate how recommendations of European guidelines regarding
pharmacological and non‐pharmacological treatments for heart failure (HF) are adopted in …

EuroHeart Failure Survey II (EHFS II): a survey on hospitalized acute heart failure patients: description of population

MS Nieminen, D Brutsaert, K Dickstein… - European heart …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Aims The objective of the EuroHeart Failure Survey II (EHFS II) was to assess patient
characteristics, aetiology, treatment, and outcome of acute heart failure (AHF) in Europe in …

EURObservational Research Programme: The Heart Failure Pilot Survey (ESC‐HF Pilot)

AP Maggioni, U Dahlström, G Filippatos… - European journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aims The primary objective of the new ESC‐HF Pilot Survey was to describe the clinical
epidemiology of outpatients and inpatients with heart failure (HF) and the …

Long-term trends in first hospitalization for heart failure and subsequent survival between 1986 and 2003: a population study of 5.1 million people

PS Jhund, K MacIntyre, CR Simpson, JD Lewsey… - Circulation, 2009 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—We examined whether population-level hospitalization rates for heart failure
(HF) and subsequent survival have continued to improve since the turn of the century. We …