J A C C : Heart Failure
Emily P. Zeitler, Andrea M. Austin, Christopher G. Leggett, Lauren Gilstrap, Daniel J. Friedman, Jonathan S. Skinner, Sana M. Al-Khatib
Heart failure (HF) remains a fast-growing cardiovascular disease affecting the Medicare population in large numbers (1,2). Increasingly, HF is managed as a chronic disease, in part because of the incremental improvements achieved with medical and device-based therapies. Despite the large proportion of older patients with HF, clinical trials designed to assess HF interventions rarely include an adequate number of older patients...