Heart failure: Calling patients more often after hospitalization helps people live longer

• About 73% of people with heart failure will live for five years and almost 35% will live for 10 years.
• Between 20% to 25% of people with heart failure will be re-hospitalized within 60 days.
• Researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai found more follow-up phone calls after hospitalization may help people with heart failure live longer and not be re-hospitalized as frequently.

More than 26 million people around the world experience heart failure.

Also known as congestive heart…