The new staging system for heart failure. what every primary care physician should know
Brozena, S.C.; Jessup, M.
Geriatrics 58(6): 31-36; Quiz 38
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-867X PMID: 12813870 Document Number: 554706
The primary care physician is in a unique position to have a major impact on the prevention of heart failure. Using the new system of classifying heart failure, the primary care physician can better evaluate and treat patients in the primary care setting. The new American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association staging system for heart failure emphasizes the structural condition of the heart as well as the prevention, evolution, and progression of heart failure. It is meant to complement the NYHA classification system, which has been used to describe functional limitations, not structural abnormalities.