“Cardiac arrest. What if your heart was trying to tell you something?“Health insurance will start awareness campaign slogan on September 25. In a little over a month, television, radio and the press will broadcast information about this still poorly understood disease, which causes approximately 73,000 deaths (twice that of cancer) and 165,000 hospitalizations in France each year. A balance that will undoubtedly increase in the future, as the number of new cases of heart failure has increased by 25% over the past four years, in particular due to the aging of the population. In general, no less than 1.5 million people live with this pathology in France.
“We speak of heart failure when the heart is no longer able to perform its normal role of moving blood around the body.“, explains Professor Christophe Leclerc, vice-president of the French Society of Cardiologists. “It could be…
Source: Le Figaro
