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“The CDC estimates that about 6.2 million adults in the United States live with heart failure. A 2022 American Heart Association report (PDF) showed that heart failure accounted for nearly 10 percent of cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States in 2019.
Life expectancy with congestive heart failure varies depending on the severity of the condition, genetics, age, and other factors. A review of 125 heart failure studies published in 2022 in BMJ indicated that on average, about a quarter of all patients diagnosed with heart failure died within a year. The result matched up fairly closely with a separate paper, published in 2019 in BMJ, based on nearly 60,000 heart failure patients showing that survival rates in patients were 75.9 percent at one year, 45.5 percent at five years, 24.5 percent at 10 years, and 12.7 percent at 15 years.”
Think about that…25% fatality in the first year! Imagine any disease having that high a fatality rate! I can only hope I am better than the average.
The hospital did an echocardiogram and other tests on me yesterday. There is heart changes…ie..measurable thickening of the heart walls. I’ll meet with the doc in a few days and get an explanation of the rest of the test results,
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@katiekateny can you post a link to that study? I would want to know age and other health conditions as well as info on the control group.
I think it is an important point to consider the cause of your CHF rather than the CHF alone. My mother had valve issues, constant afib, her heart was very enlarged and various other heart issues. Her CHF made her very short of breath but only when moving. Swelling fluctuated as did blood tests. Meds really helped her: blood pressure stayed down (amlodipine) and she was on Lasix and spiranalactone. The latter was a wonder drug for her. She died just short of 96 but had CHF for years.
I am not at all dismissing your fears and concerns and hope your doctors can give you more information and information that you can trust.
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I am going to send you a private message. I think I read through your post you are reading statistics and not the your specific case, your prognosis, and treatments you may be able to take to improve, maintain your EF and HF.
The Director of Heart Failure/Heart Transplant Division at Mayo Jacksonville told me to stop looking at numbers and concentrate on how I feel personally. The underlying cause of why you developed HF is more important than a diagnosis of HF. Thus a serious heart attack that leaves the heart very week is the cause of short life span not the diagnosis of HF which only reflects a deviation form a norm number. Congestive Heart Failure is another whole story which reflects the lungs are not getting the blood they need and other things like circulatory system affected and not just that you have lower EF that may or may not have serious side affects.