Long Term Conditions, Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Conditions

By Johnson Mbabazi

Heart failure is a growing epidemic and one of the leading causes of hospitalisations and death in UK, other developed counties and rest of the world. Due to high incident, prevalence and related mortality and morbidity, there has been, throughout the past and current years, there is a need to better identify the different forms of the disease. This book covers the present advances in the diagnosis and the management of this rapidly growing cardiovascular diseases and provides an update on guideline-based management of heart failure. This book provides basic knowledge about the modern device management of chronic heart failure and its guideline-based indications. The book additionally covers practical aspects of the management of patients with heart failure and provides a detailed resource for cardiologists and clinicians. With a strong focus on the medical management of chronic heart failure it is a key tool for optimally managing patients with complex co-morbidities. Lastly, the book explains that heart failure prevention has improved, the researchers think this could be down to changes to the environment, public health measures, and improvements in clinical care and treatments. Despite this, overall numbers of new cases of heart failure in the UK are rising, meaning there's more pressure on the health service.This book shows there are differences in heart failure rates depending on people's age and how deprived they are. This means it's possible for future public health efforts to target certain at-risk groups. You can lower your risk of heart failure by making healthy changes to your lifestyle, such as taking regular exercise, stopping smoking, and eating a healthy diet to stay a healthy weight.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1091466149
• ISBN13: 9781091466142
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"