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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on April 25, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(9):1047-1048; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl573
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Heart failure: are we neglecting the silent majority?

Aengus Murphy and John J.V. McMurray*

Department of Cardiology, Western Infirmary, Dumbarton Road, Glasgow G11 6NT, Scotland, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel: +44 141 330 3479; fax: +44 141 330 6955. E-mail address: j.mcmurray@bio.gla.ac.uk

This editorial refers to ‘Prognosis of all-cause heart failure and borderline left ventricular systolic dysfunction: 5 year mortality follow-up of the Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening Study (ECHOES)’{dagger} by F.D.R. Hobbs et al., on page 1128

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In the last decade, seminal studies from Europe, the USA, and Australasia have defined the epidemiology of heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the population.1–3 One of those studies, the aptly named Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening study (ECHOES), enrolled over 6000 individuals ≥40 years, living in the West Midlands region of England.4 Hobbs and Colleagues provide further important and incremental insights into the epidemiology of heart failure from their study.

First, they report the number of cases of heart failure . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Prognosis of all-cause heart failure and borderline left ventricular systolic dysfunction: 5 year mortality follow-up of the Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening Study (ECHOES)
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