Health care service usage and costs for high-needs elderly patients with heart failure

• 作者: Alessandra Buja Carlo Pinato Elena Schievano Francesco Avossa Giulia Grotto Maria Chiara Corti Riccardo Caberlotto Vincenzo Baldo
• 来源期刊: 老年心脏病学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（9）
• 所属期刊栏目: LETTER TO THE EDITOR
• 页码范围: 580-584
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2020.09.009

摘要

Heart failure (HF) has been defined as global disease of pandemic proportions, since it affects around 26 million people worldwide.[1] According to a recent study, age is the most important factor influencing the prevalence of HF, as it is for most other chronic conditions.[2] This means that, with the predicted aging of the population (the proportion of the world's population aged 60 years and over will nearly double from 2015 to 2050), [3] there will be a growth in the total burden of HF, and a rise in the number of comorbidities in HF patients.According to a recent study, almost 86％ of adults with HF have two or more comorbid conditions.[4]Comorbidity, defined as the co-existence of one or more additional conditions in individuals with a specified index medical condition,[5] adds to the complexity of treating elderly patients with HF.