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The researchers plan to expand the Connected Cardiac Care program to target 350 mobile heart failure patients by this summer.
An estimated 5.3 million Americans have heart failure, and hospital discharges for the condition increased from 400,000 in 1979 to 1.08 million in 2005, an increase of 171 percent, according to background information in a news release about the study.
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The U.S. National Institute on Aging has more about heart failure.
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