The number of people with heart failure will increase significantly in the coming years. Currently, approximately 130,000 people suffer from heart failure, in 2025 this number had risen to an estimated 195,000. This is evident from the report "Heart failure: epidemiology, risk factors and future" of the RIVM.
Heart failure is a condition that the end of life of many people overshadows. Heart failure occurs when the pumping function of the heart fails and leads mainly to shortness of breath and fluid in the lungs and legs. This can lead people rather tired, less physical effort to cope, poor sleep by breathlessness and often also mental problems. All in all heart failure in people with fines on their quality of life.
The literature review of the RIVM, supplemented with simulated future studies, shows that most people with heart failure experience symptoms such as those over seventy years. It is expected that the number of people with heart failure in the coming years will grow sharply, to 195,000 in 2025. The hospitalization and treatment of people with severe symptoms bring high costs involved. Earlier it was calculated that the cost of heart failure in 2007 455 million euros. Sixty percent of them were hospital.
Lifelong treatment
People can reduce the risk of heart failure by avoiding risk factors, especially high blood pressure and heart attacks. The preventive measures for cardiovascular diseases in general are also effective to prevent heart failure (healthy food, exercise, not smoking, etc.). Most health gains to be achieved by the blood of people with high blood pressure life under control. People with an increased risk of heart failure, such as after a heart attack or diabetes, would be even more intensive and targeted to be guided.
Among doctors, the interest in early detection of heart failure increased. If abnormalities could be detected before there are symptoms, a customized lifestyle or medication failure may delay or even prevent. Being there is a suitable test for this.
Heart failure is a condition that the end of life of many people overshadows. Heart failure occurs when the pumping function of the heart fails and leads mainly to shortness of breath and fluid in the lungs and legs. This can lead people rather tired, less physical effort to cope, poor sleep by breathlessness and often also mental problems. All in all heart failure in people with fines on their quality of life.
The literature review of the RIVM, supplemented with simulated future studies, shows that most people with heart failure experience symptoms such as those over seventy years. It is expected that the number of people with heart failure in the coming years will grow sharply, to 195,000 in 2025. The hospitalization and treatment of people with severe symptoms bring high costs involved. Earlier it was calculated that the cost of heart failure in 2007 455 million euros. Sixty percent of them were hospital.
Lifelong treatment
People can reduce the risk of heart failure by avoiding risk factors, especially high blood pressure and heart attacks. The preventive measures for cardiovascular diseases in general are also effective to prevent heart failure (healthy food, exercise, not smoking, etc.). Most health gains to be achieved by the blood of people with high blood pressure life under control. People with an increased risk of heart failure, such as after a heart attack or diabetes, would be even more intensive and targeted to be guided.
Among doctors, the interest in early detection of heart failure increased. If abnormalities could be detected before there are symptoms, a customized lifestyle or medication failure may delay or even prevent. Being there is a suitable test for this.
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