The total costs to care for adult patients with heart failure will increase to $142 billion annually by 2050, according to a scientific statement published April 16 by the American Heart Association in Circulation.
The new statement highlights the need to prioritize the primary prevention of heart failure, as well as potential strategies to implement preventative care.
Here are four takeaways from the statement:
- The statement builds off of guidelines published by the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Failure Society of America in 2022, and emphasized the “utility of multivariable risk equations,” such as the AHA’s PREVENT equation, to assess a patient’s risk of heart failure.
- The statement identifies a predominant phenotype of heart failure risk as well as the emergence of pharmacological therapies and echocardiographic measures that have proven to reduce heart failure risk.
- The authors developed a three-step, risk-based primary prevention “CPR” framework:
- Calculate risk using the PREVENT equation
- Personalize prevention through individual and non-traditional risk factors
- Reclassify risk using biomarkers and imaging for early intervention
- Calculate risk using the PREVENT equation
- The statement provides recommendations for addressing social determinants of health to ensure equitable implementation of heart failure prevention strategies.
Read the full statement here.
