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Health: A million Romanians suffer from cardiac insufficiency
About one million Romanians suffer from cardiac insufficiency (CI) and about 25,000 persons are diagnosed every year with this disease, while 9 out of 10 do not know they suffer from it, said Dr Marius Geanta, co-founder and president of the Centre for Innovation in Medicine.
Cardiac insufficiency is the first cause of admission in hospitals in Romania and survival 5 years after diagnosis is lower than in most forms of cancer. Data were extracted from a report of the Group for Cardiac Insufficiency of the Romanian Society of Cardiology, said Geanta at a meeting with the press on the topic of cardiac insufficiency, as part of the programme of information and education Health Innovation Agenda.
According to it, cardiac insufficiency is a serious chronic disease, when the heart cannot pump a sufficient quantity of blood to organs to support their functioning.
The most frequent causes of cardiac insufficiency in Romania are myocardial infarction and other types of coronary diseases, high blood pressure, heart valve diseases and congenital cardiac malformations. 4.7% of Romania s population has cardiac insufficiency. About 35% of patients have serious cardiac insufficiency and low quality of life, which is influenced by psychological problems, adverse reactions to treatment and social limitations, the physician showed.
In his turn, Dr Gabriel Tatu Chitoiu, the president of the Cardiology Society, said that all efforts made in the last 3-4 years were for the prevention of this disease.
The basis of our strategy - applied cardiology- is a means of getting closer to patients, of educating the people. For example, for years they said that high blood pressure was the main cause of CI. The patient, when he knows he has the disease and gets treatment,can avoid CI. A sedentary life, smoking, lack of activity are causes, but young people have infarction and get cardiac insufficiency, he explained.