Heart Failure in Australia

The Snapshot of Heart Failure in Australia Report  predicts that by the time 2025 rolls around 650,000 Australians will suffer heart failure, an increase of almost 30 per cent. Research fellow Professor Simon Stewart, director of the Mary MacKillop Institute of Health Research and director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence to Reduce Inequality in Heart Disease, led the research and says this is a conservative estimate. The study is based on our ageing and increasing population and doesn't take into consideration obesity or diabetes. The Federal Government has subsidised the cost of a new drug called Entresto which the makers are calling a “breakthrough heart failure medicine”.
Dr Lei Chen, Sarah Booley, Ashley K Keates, Professor Simon Stewart  (2017)
Snapshot of Heart Failure in Australia. Melbourne, VIC: Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research.