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Primary Prevention of Heart Failure

Most heart failure research and quality improvement efforts are targeted at treatment and secondary prevention of patients with manifest heart failure. This is distinct from coronary disease where primary prevention has been a focus for over three decades. Given the current importance and the projec...

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Autor principal: Butler, Javed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3431085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22957272
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/982417
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description Most heart failure research and quality improvement efforts are targeted at treatment and secondary prevention of patients with manifest heart failure. This is distinct from coronary disease where primary prevention has been a focus for over three decades. Given the current importance and the projected worsening of heart failure epidemiology, a more focused effort on prevention is urgently needed.
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spelling pubmed-34310852012-09-06 Primary Prevention of Heart Failure Butler, Javed ISRN Cardiol Review Article Most heart failure research and quality improvement efforts are targeted at treatment and secondary prevention of patients with manifest heart failure. This is distinct from coronary disease where primary prevention has been a focus for over three decades. Given the current importance and the projected worsening of heart failure epidemiology, a more focused effort on prevention is urgently needed. International Scholarly Research Network 2012-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3431085/ /pubmed/22957272 http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/982417 Text en Copyright © 2012 Javed Butler. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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