Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2008 Mar;72(3):489-91.
doi: 10.1253/circj.72.489.

Impending epidemic: future projection of heart failure in Japan to the year 2055

Yuji Okura  1 , Mahmoud M Ramadan, Yukiko Ohno, Wataru Mitsuma, Komei Tanaka, Masahiro Ito, Keisuke Suzuki, Naohito Tanabe, Makoto Kodama, Yoshifusa Aizawa
Affiliations
Free article

Impending epidemic: future projection of heart failure in Japan to the year 2055

Yuji Okura et al. Circ J. 2008 Mar.
Free article

Abstract

Background: The future burden of heart failure in Japan was projected to 2055 in order to prospectively estimate of the number of these patients.

Methods and results: The statistics are based on prevalence data of left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) in Sado City using the Sado Heart Failure Study (2003) and population estimates from the Japanese National Institute of Population and Social Security Research Report (2006). The number of Japanese outpatients with LVD was 979,000 in 2005, and is predicted to increase gradually as the population ages, reaching 1.3 million by 2030.

Conclusion: LVD is expected to precipitate a future epidemic of heart failure in Japan.

PubMed Disclaimer

Publication types