{"id":22387,"date":"2025-02-18T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22387"},"modified":"2025-02-18T10:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:27:58","slug":"heart-failure-deaths-are-rising-new-treatments-could-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22387","title":{"rendered":"Heart Failure Deaths Are Rising. New Treatments Could Help."},"content":{"rendered":"
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New drugs and a growing awareness of the common condition offer hope for patients.<\/p>\n

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Ann Ramirez first noticed something was wrong when, at age 48, she started waking up in the middle of the night out of breath. It felt like she was underwater, and had to wait for a wave to pass to come up for air.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very scary, because you didn\u2019t know how long that wave would last,\u201d Ms. Ramirez, now 55, said.<\/p>\n

For months, she dismissed the issues as a flare-up of her asthma, anxiety over her father\u2019s recent cancer diagnosis or a sign of impending menopause. But when she finally got checked out, a doctor diagnosed Ms. Ramirez with heart failure. Her condition eventually became so severe that she needed a heart transplant.<\/p>\n

Heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart can\u2019t pump out enough blood and oxygen to meet the body\u2019s needs. Deaths from it have been climbing steadily nationwide<\/a> since 2012, wiping out earlier declines. Rising rates of metabolic disorders like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure are likely contributing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There are medications to treat one of the two main types of heart failure, but they aren\u2019t used as much as they should be<\/a>, doctors said. \u201cThe treatments that have been proven in trials to work are not getting prescribed to people in a timely way,\u201d said Dr. Janet Wright, the director of the division for heart disease and stroke prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

But growing awareness of the condition and its risk factors could change that. And new drugs to treat the other form of heart failure could also change the trajectory for patients with the disease. <\/p>\n

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New drugs and a growing awareness of the common condition offer hope for patients.Ann Ramirez first noticed something was wrong when, at age 48, she started waking up in the middle of the night out of breath. It felt like she was underwater, and had to wait for a wave to pass to come up for air.\u201cIt was very scary, because you didn\u2019t know how long that wave would last,\u201d Ms. Ramirez, now 55, said.For months, she dismissed the issues as a flare-up of her asthma, anxiety over her father\u2019s recent cancer diagnosis or a sign of impending menopause. But when she finally got checked out, a doctor diagnosed Ms. Ramirez with heart failure. Her condition eventually became so severe that she needed a heart transplant.Heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart can\u2019t pump out enough blood and oxygen to meet the body\u2019s needs. Deaths from it have been climbing steadily nationwide since 2012, wiping out earlier declines. Rising rates of metabolic disorders like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure are likely contributing.There are medications to treat one of the two main types of heart failure, but they aren\u2019t used as much as they should be, doctors said. \u201cThe treatments that have been proven in trials to work are not getting prescribed to people in a timely way,\u201d said Dr. Janet Wright, the director of the division for heart disease and stroke prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.But growing awareness of the condition and its risk factors could change that. And new drugs to treat the other form of heart failure could also change the trajectory for patients with the disease. We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22389,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22390,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22387\/revisions\/22390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}