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Article: Heart failure consumes significant health care resources.
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- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- December 14, 2003
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2003 DEC 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In the first such analysis of the costs of heart failure, Duke University Medical Center researchers have found that elderly patients with the debilitating heart disorder have health care expenditures up to three times higher than similar patients without heart failure.
Additionally, the researchers found that patients with the more common, but less severe, form of the disease consume similar amounts of health care resources.
These findings are important, said Lawrence Liao, MD, Duke cardiologist and principal investigator of the Duke studies, because heart failure is the only cardiovascular disease whose ...