Two leading cardiology groups have joined forces to position heart failure as a preventable condition, encouraging clinicians to recognize and manage key risk factors decades before symptoms appear.

The joint statement, from the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) and the American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC), calls the prevention of heart failure a lifelong endeavor that begins with the identification of early risk factors and lifestyle modification and extends throughout the care of patients with advanced disease. In this way, clinicians can help lessen hospitalizations, enhance patients’ quality of life, and improve survival of the condition, which affects nearly 7 million American adults — according to the US CDC — and leads to more than 450,000 deaths per year

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