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Editorial |
Concordance with heart failure medications: what do patients think?
Email: f.d.r.hobbs@bham.ac.uk
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The need for effective diagnostic and treatment strategies in heart failure is immense: the condition occurs in at least 2.3% of the adult population over 45,1 rising to 4% in over 75 year olds.1 Symptomatic heart failure has a major impact on patients and healthcare systems: its prognosis for patients after hospital diagnosis is worse than breast or prostate cancer,2