was the top cause of mortality across the country, accounting for 17.9% of total deaths from January to November 2021. Two major risk factors of the disease, diabetes and hypertension, were also among the leading causes of death.
With hospitalization driving the cost of heart failure, the key to lessening its burden on the country would be a change in the care model, which would require collaboration to back the implementation of health policies. She pointed out that the majority of heart failure clinics are in Metro Manila, with only a few advanced specialists in the Philippines catering to a large population of patients.
The National Heart Failure Network — an alliance of stakeholders including the HFSP, the Philippine Heart Association, and other regional medical groups — aims to ease the burden of heart failure in the country.
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