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Wake Forest School of Medicine has been awarded a five-year federal grant targeting cardiac rehabilitation that could be worth up to $30 million.
The National Institute of Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine a five-year grant expected to total $30 million to support research to test a novel rehabilitation program designed for older patients hospitalized for acute heart failure.
E-Mail WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - May 16, 2021 - Heart failure (HF) - when the heart can't pump enough blood and oxygen through the body - affects approximately 6.2 million adults in the United States and is the primary cause of hospitalization in the elderly. Unfortunately, older adults with heart failure often have poor outcomes resulting in reduced quality of life, high mortality and frequent rehospitalizations. Despite many efforts to improve the prognosis in these patients, most previous studies testing a wide range of interventions were not successful. Scientists from the Wake Forest, Duk...