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Decline in heart failure deaths has been undone, led by people under 45

In heart failure, "the paradox is that at a time that we're seeing these increases in mortality, we also have access to better medications,” Mount Sinai Morningside's chief of cardiology said.

Heart failure mortality rates are moving in the wrong direction, a new analysis reports, reversing a decline in deaths that means more people in the United States are dying of the condition today than 25 years ago. The risk of hospitalization is higher for people with preserved ejection fraction and their quality of life is lower, often making it difficult for them to leave their homes to do basic activities like going grocery shopping or even going to the mailbox. Preserved ejection fraction tends to go along with cardiometabolic disease: obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, inactivity, “all of those things that we recognize have gotten worse over the last few decades,”said Sean Pinney, chief of cardiology at Mount Sinai Morningside.

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