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• Heart failure is more common than most cancers, including breast, testicular, cervical and bowel cancers.
  
  
• Approximately 14 million people suffer from heart failure in Europe.
  
  
• Each year, 2 to 3 individuals per 1,000 of the population develop heart failure.
  
  
• The frequency of heart failure increases with age with an incidence of 10 to 40 per 1,000 in those aged 75 years and over.
  
  
• Patients with moderate to severe heart failure have a poorer quality of life than individuals with chronic lung disease, arthritis or other cardiac conditions, such as angina.
  
  
• Survival rates for individuals with moderate to severe heart failure are worse than for most cancers and HIV, with around 40% of heart failure patients dying within one year of diagnosis.
  
  
• Just 25% of men and 38% of women live longer than 5 years after diagnosis.
  

Last updated: 20 January 2005