Low health literacy associated with higher rate of death among heart failure patients

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

An examination of health literacy (such as understanding basic health information) among managed care patients with heart failure, a condition that requires self-management, found that nearly one in five have low health literacy, which was associated with a higher all-cause risk of death, according to a study in the April 27 issue of JAMA.

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