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letters to the editor In February, the Heart Month campaign is implemented. Then the country’s heart lung associations want to pay attention to common diseases that affect the heart.
The most common diagnosis in our medical clinics is heart failure! It is often a cause of hospital care and often follows a heart attack or after a period of high blood pressure.
The disease is chronic and makes the heart unable to pump all the blood the body needs. Common signs of illness are fatigue, leg swelling, and difficulty breathing when exercising, but they can also occur at rest.
Of the estimated 300,000 Swedes estimated to have heart failure, only two-thirds have been diagnosed and have received treatment. In many county councils, not even all diagnosed people receive treatment.
Without treatment, heart failure is a serious, in many cases life-threatening condition in which the prognosis is often worse than for many types of cancer. Every fifth patient in a heart failure hospital was readmitted or died within a month. The large number of hospital visits shows that, for various reasons, care seems to lack treatment for many patients.
Then it shouldn’t be! Better care, from suspected heart failure to early diagnosis with treatment, would give more patients a longer life with a better quality of life. This could happen if there were more heart failure clinics and using quality records. Then it could be avoided that so many need to be hospitalized. Academic Hospital has one of the best cardiac clinics in the country, but as a patient, after the hospital stay, you often need contact with others with similar experiences.
The Uppsala cardiovascular association wants to reach people who have or have had heart problems. During the month of the heart of February, we have expanded activities, especially on February 14, Valentine’s Day.
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