Post-discharge care vital for heart failure patients
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: Thirty-one per cent of patients in South India who suffered heart failure have succumbed within one year of diagnosis and 45 per cent died within the first three months after being discharged from hospital according to data tabulated by the Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry and published in the American Heart Journal. The initial assessment and statistics have found that there is an urgent need to focus on post-discharge care and treatment protocol for heart failure patients. But in younger patients who came with heart failure, the mortality has been noted within a year. Often the post-hospitalisation care is not followed and that leads to death in younger patients.” The burden of heart failure is being seen in both aging population and younger population with coronary heart disease, valve failure, infections, alcohol and drug abuse and genetic history of heart disease.
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