In France, heart failure affects 1.5 million people and could grow by 25% every four years. It now concerns 10% of people over 70, but its incidence tends to also increase among those under 55, due to bad lifestyle habits such as smoking, poor diet or sedentary lifestyle. However, these figures may well be underestimated, due to a delay in diagnosis in many patients. The reason ? Ignorance of the main symptoms of the disease.
To alert the general public, Health Insurance is relaunching, from March 13, its national awareness campaign entitled “What if your heart was trying to tell you something?“. Initially launched in September 2022, this campaign had three objectives: to raise awareness of symptoms, to improve and anticipate care and to promote diagnosis. “Thanks to the first wave of the campaign, global knowledge of heart failure is on the rise, with 13% of seniors spontaneously citing it as one of the heart diseases. (…)
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