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How patients with heart failure are managed in the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
English K.M.,
Channer K.S.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
european journal of heart failure
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.149
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1879-0844
pISSN - 1388-9842
DOI - 10.1016/s1388-9842(99)00019-7
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , population ageing , intensive care medicine , health care , disease management , affect (linguistics) , population , gerontology , environmental health , cardiology , disease , economic growth , economics , linguistics , philosophy , parkinson's disease
Heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In the UK it is estimated to affect one in ten octogenarians. This obviously imposes a large burden on our health care services, and the ageing of our population will only exacerbate this. In this article we have attempted to provide a general overview of the day to day management of these patients in the United Kingdom.