NIH Senior Health Website Features Heart Failure Information
Roughly 5 million older Americans are affected by heart failure
and the number is growing. That in itself is a good reason to
check out the featured topic about heart failure on the website
NIHSeniorHealth.gov. Akinso: Roughly 5 million older Americans
are affected by heart failure and the number is growing. That in
itself is a good reason to check out the featured topic about
heart failure on the website NIHSeniorHealth.gov. There you'll
find information about prevention, detection, and treatment of
heart failure. Dr. Daniel Levy, a Medical Officer at the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute discusses the impact
that heart failure has on the elderly. Levy: An important issue
is that we're seeing many cases of heart failure emerge in older
people. Years back many people who suffered heart attacks would
have died from those heart attacks. And now we're getting so
much better at treating people coming into the hospital and the
emergency room with