[Editorial] Heart failure in an ageing population

An Article by Nathalie Conrad and colleagues published online on Nov 21 in The Lancet provides the most comprehensive epidemiology to date of the changing burden of heart failure in the UK according to age, sex, regional location, and socioeconomic status. Their data show an increase in the number of new heart failure diagnoses, at least partly because of an ageing population. Comorbidities also continued to increase for multiple chronic conditions such as hypertension, atrial fibrillation, diabetes, cancer, and osteoarthritis.
Source: LANCET - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research