Global burden of heart failure: a comprehensive and updated review of epidemiology

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Heart Failure (HF) is a multi-faceted and life-threatening syndrome characterized by significant morbidity and mortality, poor functional capacity and quality of life, and high costs. There is substantial lack of data from developing countries, where HF exhibits different features compared with that observed in the Western world.

🔑 Key Findings

• HF affects more than 64 million people worldwide.
• Therefore, attempts to decrease its social and economic burden have become a major global public health priority.
• While the incidence of HF has stabilized and seems to be declining in industrialized countries, the prevalence is increasing due to the ageing of the population, improved treatment of and survival with ischaemic heart disease, and the availability of effective evidence-based therapies prolonging life in patients with HF.

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