Women and Heart Failure

Women and Heart Failure

Introduction

The author focuses on the article “Heart failure in women: Epidemiology, biology and treatment” published in the journal Women's Health in 2009 authored by Donald Lloyd-Jones, Liviu Klein and Rashmee Shah.

The purpose of this study is to give an insight into the current practices and health trends prevalent in heart failure today.

Analysis

In medical care and in the increased medical activity of the population observed in recent years led to an overall aging of the population. In turn, this affected the incidence of specific clinical entity, traditionally related to geriatric diseases, including heart failure (HF). It is known ...