{"id":3316,"date":"2018-02-13T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tariolaw.com\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2023-06-12T16:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T23:01:58","slug":"failure-to-treat-heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tariolaw.com\/failure-to-treat-heart-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to Treat Heart Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

February is American Heart Month<\/a>. American Heart Month is a federally designated event meant to place focus on heart health to reduce heart disease, heart attacks and heart failure. While failure to treat heart failure may contribute to a small number of deaths from heart failure; any is too many.<\/p>\n

Data from the CDC<\/a> shows that about 5.7 million adults in the United States have heart failure. In 2009, one in nine deaths included heart failure as a contributing cause. About half of people who develop heart failure die within five years of diagnosis which makes treatment the difference between life and death.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is heart failure?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For our bodies to function properly, we depend on our heart to pump oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to cells throughout the body.<\/p>\n

Heart failure<\/a> does not mean that the heart is literally \u201cfailing\u201d to beat and that death is imminent. What it does mean is that the heart is weak and isn’t pumping as well as it should be. Congestive heart failure is a type of heart failure that requires prompt medical attention, but sometimes the two terms are used interchangeably.<\/p>\n

Rise in heart failure expected<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the American Heart Association heart failure diagnoses are expected to \u201cincrease dramatically\u201d in the coming years. Diagnoses are projected to rise by 46 percent by 2030, resulting in more than 8 million\u00a0people with heart failure. The reasons for the expected increase in the condition are:<\/p>\n