This publication presents statistics on the burden of heart failure in the UK, including estimates of the numbers of people currently living with heart failure.
Statistics are available on the following topics:
- Incidence and prevalence of heart failure
- Mortality from heart failure
- Morbidity from heart failure
- Treatment of heart failure
- Economic costs of heart failure
The supplement was published by the British Heart Foundation in June 2002.
Petersen S, Rayner M and Wolstenholme J (2002) Coronary heart disease statistics: heart failure supplement. BHF: London.