Noncardiac comorbidity increases preventable hospitalizations and mortality among Medicare beneficiaries with chronic heart failure.

By J. Braunstein, G. Anderson, G. Gerstenblith, W. Weller, M. Niefeld, R. Herbert, A. Wu. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2003

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Multiple Chronic Conditions: Prevalence, Health Consequences, and Implications for Quality, Care Management, and Costs (2007, background): “The likelihood that patients with a particular condition such as heart failure or diabetes will use expensive health care resources such as hospital care increases substantially with the presence of other comorbidities.(33,41) For example, the likelihood that a Medicare patient with a chronic medica”
Epidemiology and risk profile of heart failure (2010, background): “The risk of preventable hospitalizations and mortality is strongly increased with the number of comorbid conditions”
Heart failure: preventing disease and death worldwide (2014, background): “with heart failure who are elderly or have been hospitalized.(155) Many heart failure medications may not be suitable for patients who also have other medical conditions.”