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How Serious is CHF?
- Each year, a quarter of a million people die from CHF
- CHF is the leading cause of hospitalization in elderly patients
- Risk of death is 5-10% per year with mild symptoms and as high as 30-40% in patients with severe symptoms
- Annually, $25-50 billion is spent in USA to care for patients with CHF. This does not include indirect costs (loss of productivity)
- The cost of hospitalization for CHF is twice that for all forms of cancer
- Deaths as a result of CHF (as direct or secondary cause) has increased 6-fold over the past 40 years
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