Heart failure

Heart failure is the inability of the heart to transport the required blood volume (cardiac output) without an increase in pressure in the heart atriums. Not only a sickly reduced pump function (systolic heart failure or cardiac muscle weakness) but also a disturbed filling of the heart (diastolic heart failure with normal or even increased pumping) can lead to heart failure.
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Selected information about Heart failure:

Tables:

• Cost of illness by age and sex
• Deaths, Mortality figures (from 1998)
• Diagnostic data of the hospitals by place of residence and place of treatment (from 2000)
• Diagnostic data of the hospitals by place of residence (from 2000)
• Diagnostic data of the hospitals by place of treatment (from 2000)
• Diagnostic data of the hospitals (key figures of full-time inpatients)
• Mortality, e.g. by family status (starting from 1998)
• Pensions because of diminution of ability to work, average entry age, from 2000
• Rehabilitation services SPI, inpatient, adults, average age using services (starting from 2000)

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