Heart failure: More or less malignant than cancer?
Monday, August 31, 2009 - 09:21
in Health & Medicine
A recently completed analysis of over one million hospital cases in Sweden during the period 1988 to 2004 has revealed that heart failure, relative to most common forms of cancer specific to men and women, represents a major health burden in respect to the risk of being hospitalised for the first time, poor overall survival and the number of premature life-years lost.