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Heart failure.
What if your heart was trying to tell you something?
“: this is the slogan of the awareness campaign that the Health Insurance is about to launch on September 25th.
For a little over a month, television, radio and the press will broadcast information on this still poorly understood disease which causes approximately 73,000 deaths (twice as many as cancers!) and 165,000 hospitalizations each year in France.
A balance sheet which will undoubtedly increase in the future, since the number of new cases of heart failure has increased by 25% over the past four years, in particular due to the aging of the population.
In total, no less than 1.5 million people live with this pathology in France.
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We speak of heart failure when the heart is no longer capable of normally ensuring its role of propelling blood in the body
", explains Professor Christophe Leclercq, vice-president of the French Society of Cardiology.
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