Congestive Heart Failure

Definition: 

Congested Heart Failure, sometimes called Heart Failure is a chronic condition that the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to provide adequate nutrient and oxygen to meet your body needs.  Heart failure can effect one or both side of the heart. 

Epidemiology:

Congestive heart failure can affect people of all ages, from children and young adults.  Majority of people suffer from Congestive Heart failure are age 65 years and older, and is the most common diagnosis in the hospital. Heart failure contribute to approximately 287,000 deaths a year. People who develop CHF die within 5 to 10 years of diagnosis, and is often die in sudden death, such as heart attack.

  According to National Institution of Health

• In the year of 2013, heart failure had exceed 5.8 million and each year 550,000 new cases are diagnosed with health failure. 
• HF incidence was higher in African-Americans than in Caucasians might be related to their greater burden of atherosclerotic risk factors and socioeconomic status.  
• The incidence of CHF is equally frequent in men and women 
• It is the leading cause of hospitalization in people older than 65

 A study have shown that CHF is not only occurred in older adult, but the number of heart failure in adults with congenital heart disease is becoming increasingly higher. CDC has reported that birth prevalence rates between 8 and 10/1000 live births, and the hospitalizations because of heart failure in adults with congenital heart disease in the United State increased substantially from 1998 to 2005, making this problem an important public health issue.

This graph show the life expectancy in the United States, the leading cause of death is heart disease.

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