Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Heart failure (HF) is one of the largest drivers of morbidity and health care expenditure in the world and continues to increase in prevalence at an alarming rate. Most of this increasing burden is related to the rapidly expanding population of HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), largely driven by the increasing rates of obesity, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome in western countries. In the last 3 decades, there have been tremendous advances in treating patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), with essentially no change in outcomes for HFpEF.

Source: Current Problems in Cardiology - December 8, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Yogesh N.V. Reddy, Barry A. Borlaug Source Type: research