{"id":575775,"date":"2026-01-27T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=575775"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:04:26","slug":"heart-failure-causing-fewer-hospitalizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/heart-failure-causing-fewer-hospitalizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart failure causing fewer hospitalizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_575776\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-575776 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-notas-insuficiencia-cardiaca-2025-10-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-notas-insuficiencia-cardiaca-2025-10-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-notas-insuficiencia-cardiaca-2025-10-800-250x313.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-notas-insuficiencia-cardiaca-2025-10-800-700x875.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-notas-insuficiencia-cardiaca-2025-10-800-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Stephentcandrews \/ Pexels <\/span>Regular checkups help manage heart disease risk factors<span class=\"media-credits\">Stephentcandrews \/ Pexels <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A study by the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC) and the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) in Minas Gerais observed a slight increase in hospital mortality from heart failure, a disease characterized by the heart&#8217;s inability to pump blood adequately. The researchers looked at 2,851,437 hospitalizations involving men and 2,749,424 involving women in Brazil\u2019s public health system (SUS) between 2000 and 2021. Hospitalization rates for men fell by between 6.7% (aged 40 to 49) and 8.1% (over 80). Among women, the decline ranged from 7.5% (aged 70 to 79) to 8.3% (aged 50 to 59). However, deaths in hospital increased among men by 1.8% (aged 40 to 49) to 3.6% (over 80) and in women by 3.1% (over 80) to 3.5% (60 to 79). According to the team, led by the SBC\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Marcos Girardi, the results reflect improvements in outpatient management of the disease, with hospitalization only occurring in the most severe cases, which themselves demonstrate the need to better manage risk factors for the disease, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, obesity, sedentary behavior, smoking, and diabetes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/j\/abc\/a\/cBWyp5Q59WQLV5p7S36Z54k\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia<\/em><\/a>, June).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hospitalizations for heart failure have decreased, but in-hospital deaths have increased","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[229,247,260],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-575775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-epidemiology","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575780,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575775\/revisions\/575780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575775"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=575775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}