Of all the cardiac events mentioned in the Overall cardiovascular risk section, CHF deserves a special section of its own. That is for three main reasons:
- CHF is the most common cause of hospital admission in developed countries
- Its cost of management is very high, accounting for up to 2% of total healthcare expenditures
- Its cost of diagnosis is also very high, requiring expensive echocardiograms to be performed, read, and interpreted by specialized personnel and physicians (Tripoliti et al., 2016)