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Heart Failure Accounts for 37% of Medicare Spending


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"These findings highlight the complexity of treating heart failure patients who often have serious co-morbidities," and "stress the importance of developing comprehensive and coordinated care," study lead author Robert Page, an associate professor of clinical pharmacy and physical medicine, and clinical specialist in the cardiology division at the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy and Medicine, said in a heart association news release.

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The U.S. National Institute on Aging has more about heart failure.

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-- Robert Preidt

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Last updated 11/12/2008

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SOURCE: American Heart Association, news release, Nov. 12, 2008


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