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Article: Number of heart failure patients in the UK set to grow, representing a huge cost burden on the NHS.
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- December 2, 2002
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M2 PRESSWIRE-2 December 2002-DATAMONITOR: Number of heart failure patients in the UK set to grow, representing a huge cost burden on the NHS(C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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London -- The number of people with chronic heart failure in the western world is growing so rapidly that independent market analyst, Datamonitor (DTM.L) forecasts that the number of people affected in the UK alone will grow from 833,000 in 2001 to 1.5m in 2015. Although this is small in comparison to the 8.2m already suffering from the condition in the US, it will have a substantial impact on the NHS. Resulting in 86,000 hospitalisations per year, heart failure is ...