Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to the organs in our body. It is considered to be the end stage of various cardiological diseases, including heart attack, coronary artery disease, and congenital or acquired heart defects. Due to the more and more effective treatment of these diseases and the prolongation of patients' lives, the number of people with heart failure is growing. In developed countries, including Poland, it has already taken on epidemic proportions.
MAIN CAUSE OF THE DEATH OF POLES
According to the data provided in the report from 2021 entitled "Heart Failure in Poland. Realia, costs, suggestions for improving the situation ”, which was created in the initiative of patient organizations associated under the Alliance of Cardiac Organizations - Together for the Heart, over 1.2 million people with heart failure live in Poland. The average age of a person suffering from heart failure was 75 in 2018, but every tenth patient is under 60 years of age.
"Heart failure is the main cause of death among Poles - it is responsible for 10 percent. all deaths in our country "- says the national consultant in the field of cardiology prof. Jarosław Kaźmierczak. Importantly, in 2018 the number of deaths in patients with heart failure exceeded the number of new cases of the disease.
Every hour 16 people die of diagnosed heart failure. Over 40 percent patients have not survived for 5 years since its diagnosis. "Patients with heart failure who are not properly treated have a very poor prognosis, similar to most cancer patients" - emphasizes prof. Jadwiga Nessler, head of the Clinical Department of Coronary Disease and Heart F...
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