2024-09-10 14:40:53
About four million people in this country suffer from heart failure. The body’s pumping power gradually decreases. Men are much more affected than women. About half of those affected die a few years after diagnosis.
It is estimated that up to four million people in Germany suffer from heart failure. This was revealed by the “German Heart Report” Update 2024
Heart failure, also known as heart failure, is the most common heart disease that requires hospitalization, especially in the presence of coronary artery disease and cardiac arrhythmias, according to Voigtländer. So heart failure is responsible for 37,570 deaths in Germany in 2022.
Heart failure and sudden cardiac death are caused by other diseases such as high blood pressure or coronary heart disease when blood flow to the heart muscle is obstructed.
Little exercise and being overweight
Heart failure is caused by too little exercise and being overweight. Other risk factors include age and genetic factors. Men are much more affected than women.
“About 50 percent of all people with heart failure die within six years of diagnosis,” the report said. Only a few patients can be transplanted – partly because of the shortage of donor organs in Germany.
The German Heart Foundation says: Heart failure remains the challenge of the century.
Franziska Bleis is also recently on the waiting list for a donor heart. The then healthy 37-year-old first came down with a cold in 2019 – and then had severe myocarditis, as he said when he presented the report. Because his condition was so bad, he was taken to the hospital and he suddenly became a heart patient. He almost died several times and was revived, he said. It quickly became clear: he needed an assistant and was put on a high-speed list. Since then he has received a donor organ.
According to one report, in 2022 there are 678 people aged 16 and over on the waiting list, and 21 children (up to 15 years old) are waiting for a donor heart in the same year. A total of 42 children and 316 people aged 16 and over have been transplanted, according to figures from Eurotransplant and the German Foundation for Organ Transplantation.
There are 98 bodies from abroad in 2022, he said. Germany is therefore the only member of the Eurotransplant group for donor organs that do not have a transplant solution. In principle, everyone is considered a potential organ donor unless they have publicly objected to this.
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