A recently recognized form of congestive heart failure in which the heart contracts normally but doesn’t fill with enough blood results in more deaths nationwide than the more widely known form of the disorder, report researchers in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
“Even though the recently recognized form, called diastolic heart failure, is less deadly in individuals, it produces more deaths nationwide because of its much higher prevalence,” said Dalane W. Kitzman, M.D., a cardiologist from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. “In our study of older adults with heart failure, over twice as many participants had diastolic heart failure, suggesting that a key to reducing heart failure deaths is successful treatment of this second type.”
Also participating in the research were: St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, N.Y.; the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; the University of Washington in Seattle; the University of Vermont in Burlington; Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Mass.; St. Johns Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Mich.; and the University of Massachusetts at Worcester. The research was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
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