title: The new staging system for heart failure. What every primary care physician should know.
abstract: The primary care physician is in a unique position to have a major impact on the prevention of heart failure. Using the new system of classifying heart failure, the primary care physician can better evaluate and treat patients in the primary care setting. The new American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association staging system for heart failure emphasizes the structural condition of the heart as well as the prevention, evolution, and progression of heart failure. It is meant to complement the NYHA classification system, which has been used to describe functional limitations, not structural abnormalities.
authors.affiliation: Heart Failure/Transplant Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
authors.forename: Susan C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Brozena
authors.forename: Mariell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jessup
mesh_terms: D002316:Cardiotonic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D020257:Ventricular Remodeling / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D002316:Cardiotonic Agents