“ heart failure This is a serious condition that occurs when the heart cannot pump blood properly. and therefore, it cannot deliver the necessary oxygen and nutrients to all the organs of the body,” explains Dr. Alejandro RecioPresident of the Heart Failure Association of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.
Behind this heart pathology there are different reasons How:
It’s not hard to know them because… Dr. Andres IniguezPresident of the Spanish Heart Foundation, Symptoms of heart failure are obvious:
And this is very important, because, as the FEC President warns:
That is why cardiologists note you need to know the symptoms of heart failure to be able to identify them at an early stage and be able to diagnose it at an early stage. Because only then will it be possible to start treatment in time to improve the patient’s quality of life and reduce the risk of death.
As Dr. Iñiguez notes: any signs of suspicion the fact that we may suffer from heart failure should make us go to a cardiologist.
This specialist will determine whether we are actually suffering from this heart disease, due to which he may expose the patient various tests such as:
After the diagnosis has been made, The disease can be treated in different ways depending on the severity and characteristics. Thus, the patient can receive:
According to data from the Spanish Society of Cardiology, In Spain, 770,000 people suffer from heart failurewhich is equivalent to the total population of provinces such as Cordoba, Guipuzcoa or Girona.
In particular, it is assumed that Between 4.7% and 6.8% of people over 45 years of age have this disease, and in people over 75 years of age this figure reaches 16%.
The mortality rates from this disease also attract attention, since according to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE):
Except:
The problem is that the number of patients with this pathology is growing every year, according to Dr. Alejandro Recio: “The number of people suffering from heart failure is increasing mainly due to an increase in survival from other pathologies, such as myocardial infarction.” and population aging.
In fact, as the cardiologist adds:
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